Drug lord’s personal items on sale in Brazil

by Iva Skoch on

Talk about a fun auction!

Brazilians have been flocking to an auction of goods confiscated from Colombian drug baron Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia, who was arrested in Sao Paulo last year and given a 30-year sentence last week. According to BBC, about 5000 people turned up for Tuesday’s opening and 80% of the items had been sold within three hours.

As far as I know, no drugs were for sale, although that would undoubtedly make the auction all the more popular. Three thousand items were on display, including 12 televisions. Clothes on sale included Abadia’s underpants, the quickest items to sell after his capture half-naked by Brazilian police in August 2007.

Underpants? People are weird.

World’s First Printed Atlas Auctioned at 3.9 Million

by Adrienne Wilson on

As much as I like maps, especially antique maps, globes, atlases and such, I don’t know if I’d be willing to burn 3.9 million dollars on one. Okay, I’m lying through my teeth. I’d splurge only if I had an extra 60 mil tucked away in the bank, but who gives a hoot what I have, don’t have or what like to have? According to this Playfuls.com piece the world’s first printed atlas dating back to 1477 was auctioned off in London today for 2.1 million pounds (3.9 million bucks). To be more exact it is a 1477 edition of Claudius Ptolemaeus landmark atlas and went to the smart looking fellow in black. I mean it went to London dealer Bernard Shapero on behalf of a private collector.

Lucky chap.