Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?

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A cashmere shawl.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 October 2024 source ↗

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Nick Grimshaw English television and radio presenter
A table that used to belong to David Bowie: it was £13,000.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 June 2017 source ↗
Simon Mayo English radio presenter and author
My glasses. They were more than a grand.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 August 2020 source ↗
John Prescott Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007
Perfume for the wife, and the Jaguars. They were always secondhand. I have had every kind except the E-Type.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 April 2018 source ↗

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