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@Klaus said in Mildly interesting:
Nice ring! I wonder what a ring like that would sell for in an auction. That's a real piece of history.
If it belonged to Caligula, I'd hate to think where it's been.
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Not surprisingly, the ring caused a sensation when it was made available for purchase on an auction by Royal jewelers Wartski.
“This ring is one of the prestigious 'Marlborough Gems', having previously been in the collection of the Earl of Arundel.
It is crafted entirely of sapphire. Very few hololiths exist and I would argue this is the best example you can find.
We believe it belonged to the debauched Emperor Caligula and the engraving shows his final wife Caesonia,” Kieran McCarthy, Wartski director said.
Caligula’s ring was finally sold for close to £500,000 in 2019.
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Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka
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@Catseye3 said in Mildly interesting:
It would be interesting to track the ring's journey from Caligula's day to today -- where it ended up, with whom and why, and so on.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@Klaus said in Mildly interesting:
Given what people pay for a pair of socks from Elvis, or a burned toast resembling the face of Jesus, 500,000 $ sounds like a rather low price for an item like that.
My very first thought was that was an incredibly low price. Honestly I would personally have bid higher had I known it was being auctioned.
I mean, if I had Horace’s riches.
DON’T let them eat cake.
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@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
@Klaus said in Mildly interesting:
Given what people pay for a pair of socks from Elvis, or a burned toast resembling the face of Jesus, 500,000 $ sounds like a rather low price for an item like that.
My very first thought was that was an incredibly low price. Honestly I would personally have bid higher had I known it was being auctioned.
I mean, if I had Horace’s riches.
I would only bid if you did. I would drive up the price to your maximum, a point I would know because of my ability to read minds. Then I would post on TNCR a list of philanthropic projects you could have used that money for. Defeated financially and spiritually, you would retire from TNCR in shame. Only to be welcomed back by my own benevolent hand of forgiveness. Humbled and improved, you would return, wearing your Caligula ring, now engraved with a simple “H” in honor of this greatest transformative experience of your life.
Education is extremely important.
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@Catseye3 said in Mildly interesting:
@Horace The beautifully balanced and downright songlike cadence of your post above, I can only say, makes me sigh in appreciation.
Horace has kissed both the Blarney Stone and Caligula's ring.
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Mildly interesting:
Horace has kissed both the Blarney Stone and Caligula's ring.
And other things.
PM me and I'll tell you what.
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@Catseye3 said in Mildly interesting:
@Horace The beautifully balanced and downright songlike cadence of your post above, I can only say, makes me sigh in appreciation.
+1
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@Catseye3 said in Mildly interesting:
Link to video@Klaus A Bob Newhart sketch.
A roomful of monkeys, each sitting at a desk and banging away on a typewriter. Men in white coats wandering the aisles, observing. One of them stops, stares, and cries, "Jim! Jim! Get over here, quick!" The other man joins the first, who points to what the monkey had typed: "To be or not to be, that is the geframenplatz."
