“You can buy anything if the price is not wrong!
The brain is strong but money is strong!
Some may even sell their soul to you!
Then again that’s life which sometimes is a zoo!”
Do you know what is the similarity of The Roman Empire and a tooth!
Do you also know one of the most valuable tooth in the world!?
Apart from the one you own that is! Also this is directly linked to getting a wife in the old days!
read on!
Don’t worry! I will give the answer to the first one quickly!
Well both The Roman Empire and couple of famous tooth were sold and bought in an auction at some point of time!
So the origin of auctions can be traced back to approximately 500 B.C when in ancient Greece women were auctioned off for marriage!
If you think that is illegal, during this period, it was illegal for women to get married without going through the auction process!
The auctioneer started the sale with the woman who was considered to be the most beautiful among all the women being auctioned that day!
So the best was kept in the first!
The auction followed a descending pricing method, beginning with the highest price and going lower until the lowest bid was found, as long the bid price was more than, or equal to, the reserve price set by the seller. If the buyers could not get along with their new wives, they were allowed to recover their money! Now that is a cool refund policy!
And NO! This does not happen anymore! Well auction is still there but not ‘those materials!’
So early auctions were used to sell farm produce, estates, and slaves. In the American Civil War, soldiers returning from war frequently sold their war plunder through auctions. However, the only soldiers who were allowed to sell the spoils of war were those holding a rank of colonel or higher!
The business of auctioneering grew rapidly during the Great Depression when many people became bankrupt and, therefore, were forced to liquidate their assets. Auctions helped the individuals and businesses affected by the crisis to sell their assets quickly.
The need for qualified auctioneers prompted auctioneer Carey Jones to establish the first auctioneering school in early 1900. The school, located in Davenport, Iowa, was known as the Jones’ National School of Auctioneering and Oratory! So if you speak well then you can sell well!
Online auctions are popular with sellers because the huge number of potential bidders makes it easier for them to get a good price for virtually any item they have to sell. Buyers like having a wide range of products to choose from and being able to find just about anything they’re searching for to buy!
Of course we all have made bids in ebay those days when auctions used to be popular! I have bought a guitar with an auction placed so low that I never thought I could get it! Same with a business class airline ticket!
If at all you think that there are some weird things you can buy in auction, well you are right!
Long ago apparently even the Roman empire was sold in an auction!
In 193 AD the Praetorian Guard, who served as the secret police, put the Roman Empire up for sale! By the way it was sold for 6,250 drachmas!
Bizarrely, the highest bidder ended up getting beheaded! I guess it went over their heads!
Another bizarre (there are actually many!); things sold at auctions include Queen Victoria’s undies! It was embroidered with her initials “VR” for Victoria Regina, the undies were in pristine shape, having been wrapped in tissue and kept in a temperature controlled room! Sold in 2015 for $16,300!
Another was Elvis Presley’s lock of hair. Sold for $115,000! and also Ronald Reagan’s blood was sold in 2012 for $3,550!
But what I felt bizarre in the list was the above average tooth!
So apparently John Lennon’s molar was sold to a Canadian dentist named Michael Zuk who has the tooth on display in his surgery which was Sold in 2011 for $31,200! Now you would think that is a costly tooth!
Well it is! But that is not the most valuable! The most valuable was of a famous short tempered physicist associated with a fruit!
Let’s get to the point! Or else for every action!
Yes! Isaac Newton has the most valuable tooth of all time!
One of his teeth was sold in 1816 at auction for approximately $3,600 or $35,000 in today’s terms! Now that is a mouthful! Also mouthful was the famous dialogue of Amit in Namak Halaal! How he makes a monologue of the two batman who were both named vijay with different surname! One of the Vijay he spoke about is the birthday celebrity of the day Vijay Singh Madhavji Merchant!
Now that is a memory which cannot be auctioned ever!
Shubh ratri!
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