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Tiffany lamp coveted by Steve Jobs sells for $4.4M

https://www.semafor.com/article/12/16/2025/tiffany-lamp-coveted-by-steve-jobs-sells-for-44-million
8•thm•1h ago

Comments

netsharc•1h ago
How much of the price can be attributed to "Steve Jobs coveted after this lamp"?

Obviously celebrity endorsements is nothing new, but "coveting" seems new to me. Imagine if it's Trump, Musk or your favorite dickhead celebrity coveting after the object, would you say "eww" or would you pay more to say "I own something that dickhead covets."?

ortusdux•1h ago
When your customer pool is 'people with $4m to spend on a lamp', the fact that a very wealthy person considered it valuable probably holds some sway.
schmookeeg•22m ago
I would think there is some >0 value, if only to find the coveting person and destroy the object in front of them.

People with 4MM lamp money have grand scope for their spitefulness :)

IAmBroom•14m ago
Gonna be hard for Jobs' haters to do that...
OptionOfT•1h ago
https://archive.ph/ehKT0
politelemon•16m ago
Not an interesting hn submission, this is little more than a celebrity worship entry of no value.
bsammon•15m ago
This headline sounds like "this specific (one-of-a-kind?) item that Steve Jobs owned/wanted to own" when the article is really about "this lamp that is the same design as one Steve Jobs owned"

So not the "someone paid $4million for an (specific) item with a celebrity connection" that I thought it was.

bsammon•6m ago
The article says that Jobs owned a lamp like this in 1982.

Questions that come to mind:

Was Steve Jobs rich in 1982?

In 1982, was the cost of a "real" Tiffany lamp within the reach of someone at Jobs's 1982 wealth/income level?

What are the chances that the item Jobs owned was a knockoff or a mass-produced item?

I imagine that Steve Jobs was the kind of person who would buy a $5000 lamp even if he was only making $20,000 a year.

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