Honey, that ain't junk.

NeuroCooking friends with an Apple 1 in their attic should be aware that Christie's thinks it's worth about two hundred thousand dollars:

"Estimate:

£100,000 - £150,000

($159,800 - $239,700)"

18" of rubber

Readers relying upon NeuroCooking for guidance on investing in art may know that we have never incorrectly forecast the outcome of an auction for a major contemporary work. With that sterling record in mind, we confidently predict that at an upcoming auction at Sotheby's, a small Claes Oldenburg piece - an "inverted q", in rubber, one of an edition of twelve, eighteen inches high – a rare Oldenburg not requiring a vast outdoor expanse for siting – will not be a bargain. The auction house's estimate is $30-40k; the NeuroCooking estimate is $100k. And we've never been wrong.