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Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. If you want to inform yourself more regarding the Valentine’s Day, feel free to take a look here: Valentine's Day and Philately. And if you’re, at the last moment, looking for the Valentine’s Day present idea, feel free to check some of the most expensive gifts ever.
Taj Mahal is maybe the most famous gift ever. Shah Jahan initiated the work on Taj Mahal in 1632, and the construction lasted until 1653. He built it in the memory of his wife Mumtaz Mahal who died in 1631. “She died in childbirth while giving birth to her 15th child. After his death, Shah Jahan was also interred here. The total value of the "gift" is today €768 million.” - mastersexpo.com
Valentine's Day 2020: The Colours of Friendship
Finland – 2020/01/22
Domestic / No Face Value
I guess that most of us don’t have money to buy Taj Mahal, so let’s continue with our list, and see if we find something more affordable.
Valentine's Day
Estonia – 2021/02/04
0.90 €
Some guys who truly fall in love are ready to purchase expensive gifts that sometimes are simply “too much”. Still, it’s easier to buy something really expensive for your loved one if you’re Roman Abramovich.
Love 2022
Vietnam – 2022/02/14
4.000 ₫ (Vietnamese đồng)
"Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich has bought his art-loving wife, the gallery owner and editor Dasha Zhukova, hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of masterpieces during the course of their decade-plus relationship. Abramovich’s generous acquisitions for his spouse have included a $14 million Giacometti sculpture, a group of 40 paintings by Russian artist Ilya Kabakov (priced at $30-60 million each), and works by Francis Bacon ($86 million) and Lucian Freud ($33 million)." - www.forbes.com
Purchasing too expensive gifts can obviously hurt your budget. But there are many cases when these gifts were overpaid in some way. That is exactly what happened to Morton Plank when he purchased jewelry for his loved wife.
Love 2022: Carrier Pigeon with Letter
USA – 2024/01/12
FOREVER
"In 1917, New York banker Morton Plank traded his six-story Fifth Avenue mansion for a $1 million ($20 million in today’s dollars) pearl necklace from Cartier, a gift for his young wife. A few years later, Mikimoto’s invention of cultured pearls caused prices to crash, and the necklace was sold for just $150,000 after Mrs. Plank’s death in 1956. The former Plank mansion, which has served as Cartier’s New York flagship store for almost a century, would today be worth hundreds of millions, making the banker’s barter one of history’s most unfortunate, and the gift ultimately one of the most expensive ever." - www.forbes.com
The last one on the list if also extremely expensive. It’s easier to give a gift when you own the whole country. But there is a problem when you want to give this gift to somebody who owns almost half of the planet. That was the problem Duleep Singh faced in 1849.
Valentine Hearts: Lancôme Paris
France – 2024/01/22
5 * 1.29 €
"In 1849, the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire, Duleep Singh, presented an 86-carat Koh-i-Noor diamond to the Royal Queen of the United Kingdom, Queen Victoria. This gift's purpose symbolized a treaty and was well appreciated. However, at the time, the queen requested her consort, Prince Albert, to fashion it into a piece of 105.6-carat diamond jewelry. The value of that apparel today is a whopping $485 million." - www.therichest.com
Today we’ve seen some extremely expensive gifts, and some of the interesting Valentine’s Day stamps issued recently.
