Piece of Eiffel Tower sold for 10 times the estimate


	Piece of Eiffel Tower sold for 10 times the estimate

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1d94d9f6-7fc9-4e52-881b-5749c6289a38/4FFEEB95-B9F5-45D6-8DC6-3F974DF70AB8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/071119/oddities/france_auction_eiffel_offbeat" href="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/071119/oddities/france_auction_eiffel_offbeat" style="font-size: 11px;">ca.news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/071119/oddities/france_auction_eiffel_offbeat"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/ca.news.yahoo.com/img/5E8C9FD0-7780-4F54-B624-1C0C2D152549" alt="              A view of the Eiffel Tower. A portion of the original staircase of the Eiffel Tower was sold for 180,000 euros (264,000 dollars) -- 10 times the estimated price -- at an auction in Paris Monday.  
              Photo:Clemens Bilan/AFP" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/071119/oddities/france_auction_eiffel_offbeat">A portion of the original staircase of the Eiffel Tower was sold for 180,000 euros (264,000 dollars) -- 10 times the estimated price -- at an auction in Paris Monday.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/071119/oddities/france_auction_eiffel_offbeat"><P>The 20-step piece -- 4.5 metres high (over 14.5 feet) and weighing 700 kilograms (1,450 pounds) -- was bought after hectic telephone bidding by a Dutch legal consultancy that goes by the name of Eiffel.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/071119/oddities/france_auction_eiffel_offbeat"><P>"We really had to get this staircase, as a symbol to help our business and our teams climb ever higher. A kind of metaphor, no?" said Eiffel's Erik Kurvers.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/071119/oddities/france_auction_eiffel_offbeat"><P>The spiral section was part of the flight leading from the second to the third levels of the tower. It was scaled by Gustav Eiffel himself at the inauguration in 1889, when the lift was not yet in service.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/071119/oddities/france_auction_eiffel_offbeat"><P>One of 24 sections of the staircase removed in 1983 during renovation work, it had been in private hands ever since. Another section can be seen at the Statue of Liberty in New York.   </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4FFEEB95-B9F5-45D6-8DC6-3F974DF70AB8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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