{"id":472946,"date":"2026-06-12T01:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T01:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/472946\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T01:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T01:23:13","slug":"handbag-made-from-t-rex-skin-may-fetch-860000-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/472946\/","title":{"rendered":"Handbag made from T-rex skin may fetch $860,000 at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\">He said: \u201cIn this case, it\u2019s derived from a cell culture, so it\u2019s 100% skin. And at the same time, it comes from an animal that went extinct 67 million years ago!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\">With no precedent to go on, auctioneer Alexandre Giquello explained that the auction house had to \u201ccome up with a price\u201d that would reflect both the amount of investment required to create the bag and its rarity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\">Giquello estimated the value at between US$346,000 and US$576,000 ($595,000 and $990,000).<\/p>\n<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\">He said: \u201c[It is] a very, very large sum of money. At the same time, it\u2019s one of a kind. And since rare things are expensive, that\u2019s the result.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\">&#8211; AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said: \u201cIn this case, it\u2019s derived from a cell culture, so it\u2019s 100% skin. And at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[22431,1975,1978,107138,138,25840,124,238730,20259,71,31776,10053,219995,1362,7810,130,111,139,69,211070,6943,9615,13311,1245,131,24954,220223,95961,1533],"class_list":["post-472946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-22431","tag-at","tag-auction","tag-auctioned","tag-business","tag-cells","tag-could","tag-estimating","tag-fetch","tag-from","tag-handbag","tag-house","tag-leather","tag-made","tag-may","tag-more","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-oneofakind","tag-paris","tag-piece","tag-sell","tag-skin","tag-than","tag-trex","tag-tyrannosaurus","tag-us500000","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}