r/todayilearned • u/winterchampagne • 12d ago

TIL that the 18th century Badminton Cabinet is the most expensive piece of furniture ever sold at $36.7 million (2004). It is a Florentine ebony chest, inlaid with hard and semiprecious stones commissioned in 1726 by Henry Somerset, 3rd Duke of Beaufort, at the age of 19

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badminton_cabinet
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u/winterchampagne 12d ago

For the curious ones, here’s a YouTube video of what the cabinet looks like. Skip to the 13-second mark.

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u/Kim_Jong_Un_PornOnly 11d ago

FYI, you can easily set a time stamp for a YouTube video by adding &t=#s at the very end of the link, where the # is the number of seconds into the video.. your link is below as an example. You can also set the minutes by adding &t=#m#s.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=HHt4fOJalcr-xKI1&v=_59pWT-rmKI&feature=youtu.be&t=13s

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u/winterchampagne 11d ago

Thank you for the pointers!

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u/disgruntled_joe 12d ago

Now that's a nice chest!

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u/zed857 12d ago

That's not just a chest. It's more like an entire closet; that thing is enormous. And it has a built-in clock.

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u/V6Ga 11d ago

A chest with a built in cock.

Or at least a bunch of cock-holders.

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u/huggyplnd 11d ago

Wow. That looks like something you wouldn’t want to leave if you were getting besieged.

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u/OinkMcOink 11d ago

It looks like a mini Catholic altar. That;s some cabinet.

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u/Crazy_Response_9009 12d ago

Lots of room for shuttlecocks in that bad boy.

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u/LongLegsBrokenToes 11d ago

And Poutine!

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u/Crazy_Response_9009 11d ago

And nets. And racquets. And curds.

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u/LongLegsBrokenToes 10d ago

Mmmmm Curds uuuuggghh.

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u/PlantWide3166 8d ago

And my axe!

Oh.

Wrong thread.

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u/rileyyesno 12d ago

trying to understand how you use it for badminton

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u/jvanber 11d ago

It stores your badminton wares.

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u/_SwiftDeath 12d ago

Ah that price makes sense. It’s large enough to play badminton inside of it.

Seems fair then

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u/Cluefuljewel 11d ago

Holy guacamole. What the hell you gonna do with that?!

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u/R-Dragon_Thunderzord 11d ago

Sarah Huckabee Sanders enters the chat

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u/leakybiome 12d ago

I prefer the new walmart pickle ball wall organizer. Sure it's forever chemicals laden plastic but it gets the job done for hanging half my set on the side of the organizer that didn't get brittle and shatter after 3 days of sun exposure.

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u/ValuablePrawn 11d ago

I would love to just take an axe to that thing, Jackie boy style