Evolution items for sale at Paris auction
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November 29, 2009, Sunday
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FROM entire dinosaur skeletons and fossilized bugs alive more than 400 million years ago, to modern space paraphernalia, there is something for every pocket in a Paris evolution-themed auction this week.
The hundreds of pieces charting life on earth culminate in curiosities from the space age, such as a pair of bright green cloth diapers made for Russian astronauts.
Other eye-catchers include an 8-meter-long Spinosaurus skeleton, complete with its distinctive long spines and sharp-toothed open jaws.
Hand-sized trilobites, marine bugs dating back some 470 million years, are priced at around 2,000 euros (US$2,985) each and fossilized dinosaur teeth and small insects can be snatched up for a few hundred euros.
But the dinosaur skeleton is estimated to be valued at several hundreds of thousands of euros.
"There's something for every wallet and every fantasy," Curator Bertrand Cornette de Saint Cyr said at the Drouot-Montaigne auction house, where the sale will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday.
"We are no longer looking at objects, at man-made paintings, but at the sources of life, the sources of everything," he said.
Auction houses such as Christie's have held several prehistoric sales in recent years as Hollywood movies have fuelled interest in dinosaurs and their remains.
The Russian astronaut suits, space-ship manuals and hardware are aimed at space-age fans as well as art lovers.
The hundreds of pieces charting life on earth culminate in curiosities from the space age, such as a pair of bright green cloth diapers made for Russian astronauts.
Other eye-catchers include an 8-meter-long Spinosaurus skeleton, complete with its distinctive long spines and sharp-toothed open jaws.
Hand-sized trilobites, marine bugs dating back some 470 million years, are priced at around 2,000 euros (US$2,985) each and fossilized dinosaur teeth and small insects can be snatched up for a few hundred euros.
But the dinosaur skeleton is estimated to be valued at several hundreds of thousands of euros.
"There's something for every wallet and every fantasy," Curator Bertrand Cornette de Saint Cyr said at the Drouot-Montaigne auction house, where the sale will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday.
"We are no longer looking at objects, at man-made paintings, but at the sources of life, the sources of everything," he said.
Auction houses such as Christie's have held several prehistoric sales in recent years as Hollywood movies have fuelled interest in dinosaurs and their remains.
The Russian astronaut suits, space-ship manuals and hardware are aimed at space-age fans as well as art lovers.
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