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naomi24 | 07:09 Tue 29th Oct 2024 | ChatterBank
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A shipwreck museum in Cornwall us selling its collection.  A piece of rope from the Tudor warship Mary Rose is expected to fetch up to £10,000 at auction and a lump of coal from Titanic £600.  
 

Are you a collector - and would you pay high prices to own such artefacts?

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Some people have got more money than sense. I haven't got either, but I've no doubt someone will pay for them.

Yep,someone somewhere will 100% be thrilled to own any of these such original items. Would I if I had the money?  Not sure tbh and I'll prob never know lol, but imagining actually holding something that was on the Titanic. 

I'm not a collector.  I can admire works of art, appreciate the history of artefacts but never feel the need to own them.

Naomi, i was reading the other day about a piece of art that was expected to fetch around $1.5M. A painting? A sculpture? An unmade bed, maybe?

No, the 'piece of art' is a ripe banana duct taped to a wall! Of course it's not the original banana - that was eaten. And the winner of the auction will get a brand new piece of duct tape AND a fresh ripe banana.

And possibly a one-way ticket to the nuthouse.

Before I part with my cash I want the items carbon dated please 

They have something which Walter Benjamin famously called an "aura"; an indefinable quality which transcends the actual. physical object itself. 

Like the relics in various religions. In Kandy, Sri Lanka, I've visited a whole temple built to house a tooth of Buddha. 

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