Harry Potter's initial edition went over the table for more than 400,000 euros

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The value of an object is always in the eye of the beholder, then it says. And that is always led to us in the world of art again and again. A particularly young theme are currently NFTs and what people do with it and earn. The controversial and loudly discussed Streamer in Amaranth, for example, has taken 120,000 US dollars with an NFT.

But of course, there are also countless objects of the real world, for which some people are willing to pay tum, just so that they can call them their own. Whether this is justified or not that... lies as already mentioned in the eye of the viewer. Or would we all agree that more than 400,000 euros for a rare first edition of Harry Potter and the stone of the wise absolutely make sense? You should at least argue with me ^^

471,000 US dollars for one of 500 books

Someone has actually been such a great interest in this specific book, that this person has almost half a million US dollars on the table as auction of Heritage Auctions (via PC Games) — these are translated around the 410,000 Euro. And it's not just the most expensive Harry Potter's book ever sold, but also the most expensive commercially released Belletrist work of the 20th century, Heritage Auctions Executive Vice President Joe Magdalena boasts of the completed auction. The starting offer began only $75,000.

The reason for this high price: This issue of Harry Potter and the philosopher's Stone, then is one of 500 pieces. The first plant of Rowling was rejected by dozens of publishers and then printed by Bloomsbury in a small edition for public libraries. Copies of this issue are rarely open; Two of them changed the owner in 2021 for nearly $140,000 US dollars.

Collectives for first editions

The book came from a collection of a Harry Potter fan, which has spent a lot of time in the past, to find such rare first editions — curiously after it fell in love with the films. In the collection, from which 138 objects are sold, there are also very well-preserved issues of the Lord-Rings Trilogy of J.R.R. Tolkien, all seven first editions of the Chronicles of Narnia of C. S. Lewis and also Casino Royale of Ian Fleming. The first auction, in whose frame 69 objects came under the hammer (proverbial), brought once more than one million US dollars.

Poo! And for books that the buyers probably will not be read without gloves or (even more likely). But you also hear Pokémon tickets for $375,000... Collect something? If so, do you want to keep things or see them as a value system?

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