Ein Artikel in der Daily Mail berichtet von einer adeligen Zerlegungsaktion, um ein bescheides Heim wohnlicher zu gestalten …
Spot the (expensive) birdie: Aristocrat papered her walls with pictures ripped from bird book – which would now be worth £7 MILLION
– Lady Isabella Hertford received John James Audobon’s The Birds of America from her lover, King George IV
– She used 28 of book’s pictures to decorate Chinese Drawing Room of mansion, Temple Newsam House, in 1827
– There are 119 copies in the world – only six of which are owned privately – and one sold for £7m at auction in 2010
Siehe den Artikel unter http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3419387/One-world-s-rarest-books-fetched-7million-auction-owner-hadn-t-cut-wallpaper.html
Siehe auch:
http://money.aol.co.uk/2016/01/28/worlds-most-valuable-book-cut-up-for-decorating-project/