Working for an online auction house, I get to see a very wide variety of products and produce, some I never knew existed and other I wish didn't at all.
However it's not always the biggest item of the lot that will go for the most money and furniture is as big of example of this as any.
This is a set of articles aiming to find the most expensive auctions that have ever taken place.
The articles will be divided by category of the item.
This weeks category will be something that my company specialises in...
Furniture.
The Badminton Cabinet - $36 Million This piece of furniture is widely regarded as the most expensive piece of single furniture ever conceived.
This pricey cabinet broke the world record that it set itself, when it was sold at Christies auction house in 2004 for the hefty sum of $36million.
The cabinet itself is a fine piece of carpentry infused with a master jewellers touch.
Originating from 18th century Florence, the ebony made chest is inlaid with Agate, Quartz, Lapis Lazuli and other precious stones from around the world.
Apart from being a physical delight, the cabinet has had a host of previous owners deeply embedded in European Aristocratic society.
The cabinet was named so after spending over two centuries in Badminton, England before being bought by Barbara Piasecka Johnson (of the Johnson & Johnson fortune) for $16.
59 million.
Johnson put it up for sale in 2004, when it was bought by Prince Hans Adam II of Liechtenstein, who donated it to the Liechtenstein Museum in Austria.