Sunday, August 29, 2010

HE MANHEIM MARBLE SPECIMEN TABLE!!!

Price: $550,000

Ninety-seven varieties of marble comprise the surface of this Italian Renaissance-style table
Eighty-six of the 97 species can no longer be mined, and are therefore extinct
The marble measures a full two inches thick, and the entire top is nearly 11 feet in length
Some of the varieties hail from mines used for the Vatican and Versailles Palace
Circa 1890





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