The rarest thing in the world (17 photos)

A rare necklace, a unique Japanese sea salt, an exclusive copy of the album by John Lennon, the most expensive postage stamp and the castle of Count Dracula ... That's such an unusual proximity of the most unusual things ... So, a collector's dream, real rarities, true rarity - present a gallery of the rarest things in the world. .. It is believed that the rarest mineral organic origin is a little-known Payne: This orange stone was first discovered in Burma in the mid 50s. Since then, the world there are only two peynita. However, a few years ago it was opened by its field, and is now at the disposal of mankind are about a hundred polished rarities. The most famous is a stone-rarity is the famous red brilliant.


Despite the vast literary heritage left by their descendants, handwritten evidence of his activities there are not many. There are only 6 "autographs" of the great Shakespeare. The most expensive of them - the signature of the writer - is estimated at $ 3 million.



The rarest breed of domestic cats - Asher. She withdrew from the African
serval, an Asian leopard cat and the ordinary home Murka. Weight
cats can reach 14 kg, and get a kitten, you can "only" 22
thousands of dollars

In 1999, the auction was sold that same copy of the album John
Lennon and Yoko «Double Fantasy», on which the singer has put an autograph for
her future killer Mark Chapman 5 hours before his own death.
The plate was found in the decorative potted flower next to a place
crime. The envelope contains fingerprints of Chapman: In
once served as the album one of the prosecution evidence against
killer. Rare price 460 000 US dollars.

According to Wikipedia, the most rare and expensive stamp
in the world - "Yellow treskilling" from Sweden. Its approximate cost
2 of 3 million US dollars. What is it rare? In 1858 in
Sweden produced a series of blue stamps worth 3
Skilling (hence the name - Treskiling) and yellow - cost 8
Skilling. In printing mixed color, and because of this error to light
there have been several instances of yellow makes the $ 3 Skilling 13,686,777

The most rare and expensive in the world of sea salt is produced in Japan and
It is called "Amabito But Mosio" - "old salt seas". Because
the complexity of production and sensitive method of evaporation and centrifugation,
the cost for 1 pound of salt is 40 US dollars 8,641,241

Guinness World Records says that the most rare and expensive jeans -
the famous 501-I model of Levi Strauss & Co. For old,
stitched 115 years ago, jeans collector from Japan posted owner
lots of online auction site eBay 60 thousand dollars. A huge amount,
Considering that the new jeans of the same model are only 46 ..

Baseball cards - a popular collectibles in the US,
Canada and Japan. Card «T206 Honus Wagner», released in 1906
American Tobacco Company, is considered to be the rarest baseball cards
in the world. It was printed edition of only 70 copies, and then it
was discontinued at the request of the Onusa Wagner, who was
opponent of smoking and did not want the American Tobacco Company
He used his name. In 2007, the card was sold for a record
$ 2, 8 million USD 78,980,222

One of the rare nowadays existing comic books - this is the first
edition of the famous "Spider-Man" called «Amazing Spider-Man
#1". The rarity of it is not just a sequence number, but in fact,
that publication of the book in 1963, it amazingly well preserved.
Approximate cost of a rarity for collectors is about
40 thousand dollars in the original retail price of 12 cents.

Ancient and rare property for sale - Castle in
Transylvania, famous for the fact that it supposedly lived Earl
Dracula, a real prototype famous literary character. Market
the price of the castle close to $ 135 million 48,673,785

Scientists argue that rare breed of horse sarraya - direct descendants
Wild horses of South Iberia. Total in the world have only 200 such
horses. But the characteristics and qualities of the rarest breed
It is considered to be bred for military purposes Austrian breed lipizzaner.
The price for one such horse comes to 100 thousand dollars 72,889,940

In the world there is a huge number of rare books, but, perhaps,
the rarest is the famous Gutenberg Bible: the first printed
book which appeared in 1456. There are several hundred copies of the most
Bible, however, is the first instance in two volumes - if will be found - will cost a collector of antique books about 20-25 million
dollars. What to say, if one page of the book leaves the
sold for 25 thousand dollars, and for the sold last year, one of
Volume two volumes - is not the first edition - one fork out of 5, 5
millions!

Deciding to start collecting jewelery rarity, be patient
and money: a measly five million dollars will not help. Most
expensive jewelry in the world - a necklace with a rare blue
diamond weighing 14 carats. Pear-cut stone is framed by white
diamonds and imprisoned in prisoner necklace in white gold. Total cost
products - $ 16 million.

One of the rarest (from sold at auction) bottles of wine purchased
Christopher Forbes - "only" 160 thousand dollars. Unmarked green
bottle with the inscription "1787 Lafitte Th. J. »allegedly belonged
Thomas Jefferson

In 2006, New York's Sotheby's auction of Chinese porcelain
vase mid XIV century was sold for 4, 72 million dollars. In
the last time she appeared at a public auction in 1993: then
it bought for 1, $ 2 million. A relatively small (34
centimeter) vase is an example of the classical style Yuan, which
prevailed cobalt blue underglaze painting on a white background. Worth
note that this is the only surviving copy of this kind

July 30, 2002 at an auction Sotheby`s 7, $ 9 million has been
It sold a rare gold coin of 30-ies of XX century. Unique coin
$ 20 denomination is called a "double eagle". In the 30s
abandonment of the gold standard has led to the withdrawal from circulation of coins from
this precious metal, and almost all the "double eagles" were sent
the smelter. Ten coins release spring of 1933 were stolen from
Storage of the Ministry of Finance. US intelligence agencies failed to find
and return all but one - this itself. "Double eagle" managed to find
almost half a century later - British collector Stephen Fenton bought
coin in London and came with her to New York, where he was arrested
US federal agents. After five years of litigation
the US government has reached an agreement with him: the coin is
US property, but it can be sold

One of the rarest and most exotic dishes on the planet - the famous
Chinese soup of swallows' nests. Over 400 years have passed since the
the invention serves, it became more expensive in times: soup from a nest of sea
Swift-salanganov gourmets can cost in the amount of up to 10 thousand dollars.

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