$100,000 Ancient table for sale

[srwtlc]

Check out the slide show. I think they're gonna need a little bigger fork lift or more plumbers crack! :D

Ancient Kauri table (http://www.woodworkingnetwork.com/wood-blogs/fine-woodworking/custom-michaelle-bradford/Rare-Ancient-Kauri-Wood-Table-Comes-With-100000-Price-Tag-278009641.html#sthash.e1EwPMIC.dpbs?utm_source=612 3B4744701E9Z&utm_medium=eNL&utm_campaign=Woodworking+Network+Daily_20141008&utm_term=&utm_content=).

[myxpykalix]

Unless that table was made from the wood of a "Money Tree" that had been fertilized by powdered gold it ain't worth $100,000. to me:eek:
Who would pay that kind of money?:confused:

[jTr]

This reminds me of someone locally who was selling a rustic wood bed frame they'd purchased in their home state, but wouldn't fit in their new home. It wasn't just a unique twisted log frame bed. She had a full story of how the logs came from a lightening-struck tree, then pulled out of the forest using a mule team, and they'd paid quite a price accordingly...:rolleyes:

This is a fine looking table with a gorgeous patina, and I'm sure that was a beautiful bed, even though I never saw it's one of a kind lightening-struck features and inevitable rope & harness marks from the mule team;).

Point being, to the casual observer, they are what they are, and no more. In some cases, the story is worth far more than the product being purveyed. This one really takes top honors for the largest load of Mule scat...
(Yeah, I know they went to extreme lengths to harvest the wood and reasearch it's origins, blah blah.... I am just jealous I haven't come up with a six figure story of my own.:D)

[genek]

The Tree that they dug up is not extinct. It still grows. The only difference is that this tree was buried years ago (possibly Hundreds of years ago). Yes the wood is worth more, However it is not worth that Much. I have American Chestnut Timber (which is extinct), but I can only get 12 bf for it ... They are dreaming and spent more retrieving the log than they will ever get out of it. I know where a log is that is 9 feet in diameter 22 feet long and under 40 feet of water... but it is not worth bringing it up, one could never get the money needed out of it to retrieve it.

[frank]

A little more than 100 years ago. Try 50,000 years ago.

[genek]

A little more than 100 years ago. Try 50,000 years ago.
Did not know the age of the tree...But I still think the price is to high... Glad you got on Frank... not seen you on here in a long time