There’s nothing quite as pungent as walking into a book store specialising in old tomes. But why do they produce such a strong and unique smell as they age? Basically every book is an organic chemical reaction just waiting to happen.
These wooden chairs and coffee tables are about as far-removed from the antique wooden furniture lining your grandparents’ house as possible. With resin strips glowing brightly, they look like zebra poo – or at least something from the ’60s.
Daguerreotype cameras are the great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfathers of the devices we use for snapshots today. Recently the earliest – and with an expected price of 700,000 euro ($1 million), the most expensive – examples of such a camera was rediscovered in a private collection.
In the year 2550, Antiques Roadshow will still be on the air, but it will be much different, and much less accurate. But there is good news: Master Chief works there!
Sold at an auction for $US14,850, this 100% authentic vampire kit from the 19th century is an absolute steal. I mean, can you really put a price to the ability to battle vampires like Kiefer Sutherland, Dick Cheney and Bono? I say no. And make no mistakes, blood-sucking undeads, because this hand-carved walnut portable suitcase comes loaded with all I need to kill you:
