Classmate Facts # 69 - Collector's Collectibles!

1. Van Gough rules! His portrait of Dr. Gachet was the most expensive painting ever sold. The masterpiece fetched US $ 82.5 Million!

2. Bill Gates bought Leonardo Da Vinci's notebook, called the Codex Hammer, in 1994 for US $ 30.8 Million.

3. US $ 946,000! That's what the Stradivari Kreutzer violin sold for in 1988.

4. The action comic with Serial No.1, published in June 1938, was sold in the 1990s for US $ 185,000.

5. A 1925 Patek Philippe watch, priced in 1925 at $ 15,000, was sold in the late 1990s for US $ 11 Million.