Tuesday, July 28, 2009

1. $275,000 – Shipwrecked 1907 Heidsieck & Co. Monopole Champagne


Cases of the bubbly were bound for Czar Nicholas II of Russia, but were lost in 1917 after a German submarine in torpedoed its transport during WWI. In 1998. 2,000 bottles were salvaged from the bottom of the Gulf of Finland and now sell for more than a quarter million dollars.

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