- 20% – average annual return on the most prestigious cigar collections
- 21% – average annual return for pre-1969 baseball card dealers
- 28% – annual return for The Collectors Fund, a fund that buys American masters’ artwork
- $47,000 – price paid for first edition signed copy of C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- $115,000 – price paid for tresses of Elvis Presley’s hair
- $1,267,500 – price paid for Marilyn Monroe’s “Happy Birthday Mr. President” dress
- $1.3 million – price paid for the bat used by Babe Ruth to hit the first home run at Yankee Stadium
- $106.5 million – price paid for Pablo Picasso’s “Nude, Green Leaves and Bust”
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