Featured I'm putting this up because I think it is one of the most beautiful artifacts I have ever seen

It went for a trifle, and I missed it.



Just $63,700

PETITE BOÎTE RONDE EN OR 18 k (750) ET ÉMAIL Poinçon du Maître orfèvre Henri Delobel, reçu en 1756
Paris 1753-1754

https://www.artcurial.com/fr/lot-pe...fevre-henri-delobel-recu-en-1756#popin-active

 

Gold snuff boxes... gotta love em.

 

Beautiful-went for 63,700 Euros (if I read that right) ?

 

My heart was going pit-a-pat.

 

$Dollars not Euros; but about the same in hard cash at that level. Estimate was $15,000 to $20,000.

 

Wow-obviously quite a piece.

 

Prices can reach millions for something you could put in your pocket and hardly make a bulge.

This 19thC one made GBP140,000 in 2013:

 

In turnabout-is-fair-play, here are a couple of European automata made for the Chinese market:

 

Any idea what these sold for? The items in the video were amazing.

So beautiful!

 

THIS is the kind of stuff Id be collecting if I won that damn powerball !

 

Ditto !

 

I can't find results for either of those automata sales online. I can't find the estimates for the snuff box, but the high estimate on the necessaire was about US $1.2 million (9.5 million HKD)