There are 10,000-year-old arrowheads sold for that much or less. They’re not scarce or sacred or anything; they’re literally weapons that were made in mass quantities for warfare or hunting.
I’ve seen some BC bronze arrowheads listed for auction and were surprised how cheap they were.
There’s a lot of fake “bronze” stuff coming out of China, so keep an eye out.
This is a great opportunity for a mom joke
Damn it, beat me to it
Guessing a book. Or maybe an arrowhead. Hopefully a collector or historian will weigh in. It’s a fun question.
I worked at auctions, being the offline ‘online’ buyer, so people could use me as an in person bidder for that online platform. I saw a
3500800 ish year old tiny Aztec sculpture go for 260 euro, around 2015. I was like, do I need to call the cops? What is happening?How did you get into this job? It actually sounds quite fun, except it’s something I’d never have considered doing because I didn’t know it existed.
I worked in high end (food/event)service but my employer at the time had very diverse partnerships, one of them was offering this service and had the programmers themselves be present at the auctions too. But then they grew and couldn’t fill all requests and we struck a partnership. I fit right in because of my above average IT knowledge in comparison with other service colleagues.
There’s a ton of offline"-online" auction services now a day, live bidding whatever you call it. You could google a couple of them inform them of your interest.
The job itself was fun, so many objects I had never seen before! Very cool. It was also stressful, auctioning is live and sometimes the lot being auctioned off is worth a lot. Super fun to see your live-auction-system shit itself right in the middle of a 3 way bidding war
Just describing it sounds fun. “I am an in person online bidder” “what?” “You heard me…”
Proxies at auctions are actually quite common. There are plenty of people who have neither of the time nor interest to show up in person, so they just pay someone to do it for them.
you can find paleolithic tools for less than that on ebay, but i would assume there are lots of fakes posted for sale
In the British Empire, ancient Egyptian cat mummies were sold as fertilizer.
And the rest! Human mummies were ground up and used for a paint called “mummy brown”. Artists only stopped using it because the supply of mummies dried up (lol).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown
During the Egyptomania phase in Victorian times, rich folk would hold mummy unwrapping parties… and not just in England.
Pretty sure you could get a bit of mummy for that price
To eat?
More likely to make paint with.
But yes.
If you’d like the taste of linen and bone dust
Are you my mummy?
You can buy single pages of old books/manuscripts on auction sites for that or even much less sometimes. Maybe not the oldest available, but it’s the oldest thing I’ve ever bought. I have mine framed in the hall.
There’s a bunch of ancient Egyptian cosmetic spoons floating around you might be able to pick up at a flea market.
Wildly unethical to buy given that they were looted from egypt.
A rock.
