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    Shoppers wondering how to deal with the afterlife found an answer Friday -- a cell-phone-equipped golden coffin, one of many items on display at the opening of an international luxury fair in Verona. The coffin was priced at a mere 280,000 euros (381,000 dollars), while a diamond-studded, cancan-style wedding gown in pink chinchilla fur could be scooped up for 220,000 euros. Read More
  • Historical firearms auctioned

    James D. Julia Auctions in Fairfield, Maine provides this rare opportunity to all gun lovers to get hold of historic firearms that belonged to famous and infamous and morbid men like the FBI’s most wanted man of the Depression era, John Dillinger. Among the impressive display of items up for auction include a Belgian Knuckleduster Revolver (featured right, est. $7,000-$9,000), and the most excit... Read More
  • Top 10 most self-indulgent golfing gears

    If you thought that Golf is a sport which only needed a putter, ball and clubs to hit it off in style then you need to run a check as time and again we have been covering luxurious golfing paraphernalia that enhances the oomph factor of this game. Touted to be a rich man’s sport, it is often wondered if the equipment makes the golfer, or is it the other way around. Of late golf has become a desi... Read More
  • Coffee Cups recreate the Mona Lisa

    The Mona Lisa has been recreated with 3,604 cups of coffee and 564 pints of milk in Sydney, Australia. The 3,604 cups of coffee were each filled with different amounts of milk to create the different sepia shades of the painting. It measures an impressive 20 feet high and 13 feet wide and took a team of eight people three hours to complete. Read More
   
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Sunday, 28 February 2010 12:03

golden-coffin-verona-fairShoppers wondering how to deal with the afterlife found an answer Friday -- a cell-phone-equipped golden coffin, one of many items on display at the opening of an international luxury fair in Verona. The coffin was priced at a mere 280,000 euros (381,000 dollars), while a diamond-studded, cancan-style wedding gown in pink chinchilla fur could be scooped up for 220,000 euros.

More traditional items include a boat running on a Ferrari engine and a crystal-covered piano, whose price was undisclosed. A limited-edition sports car was priced at 1.3 million euros, while the more ecologically conscious could opt for a 24-carat gold racer bicycle. An armchair covered with the skin of 20 crocodiles, decorated in gold, diamonds and rubies was on sale for 200,000 euros; a hand-crafted billiard table covered in golden sheets retailed at 60,000 euros.

 

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