Hermès or a house?

Los Angeles is of course an excellent place to extract some money from the pockets of wealthy types. Well. That worked. Yesterday, at an auction, a diamond matte Himalayan Nilo crocodile Birkin Bag was hammered down for the amount of, you guessed it, 185,000 dollars. That's one hundred eighty-five thousand dollars.

For that price, you also got 18-carat gold hardware and 242 diamonds totaling 9.84 carats. And no, it's not the most expensive bag ever. That was a sister of this one that went for 203,150 dollars in Dallas.

The buyer was present at the auction (usually you let someone else do that, very fancy, and you place your bids by phone), so if someone saw someone walking out with a large, filled garbage bag, you know; it’s the Hermès girl.