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West Midlands paid £175 for leather firefighting boots, which were bought for £75 a pair by Cornwall.

People remember movies like "Happy Texas" and "Tadpole," which were bought for large sums and petered out at the box office.

This culminated in 1971 in a scandal over what were purported to be his memoirs, which were bought for book and magazine publication at sums totalling $1 million.

The jungle park was sold two years later and turned into condominiums and a golf course except for 18 acres in the heart of the garden, which were bought for $1.7 million in 1995 by the Indian River Land Trust.

The settlers' high-tech greenhouses, which were bought for the Palestinians with $14 million in donations, were left unguarded and within days were stripped of computer equipment, irrigation pipes, water pumps and plastic sheeting.

They include The Rape of Europa in Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Diana and Actaeon and Diana and Callisto, which were bought for the UK after a popular appeal and are shared by the national galleries in London and Edinburgh.

We have left out another club, Derby County, which was bought for some $100m in January but relegated in June.

Robertson Stephens, which was bought for $800 million in 1998 by BankBoston, lost $61 million in 2001 on revenue of $543 million.

International groups such as Unilever, Nestlé, or Danone are all seen as possible buyers for the business, which was bought for £172m in 2005.

The late abstract expressionist Clyfford Still, whose work is rarely on the market, set a record in November with "1949-A-No.1," which was bought for $61.7 million.

The residence, which was bought for 2.56 million New Zealand dollars, or about $2 million, covers 448 square meters, or about 4,800 square feet, on a 937-square-meter lot.