image for illustration: Arnaud Ligny – Tour Eiffel, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A staircase that once connected the tower’s second and third floors of the Eiffel Tower, is estimated to fetch between €120,000 and €150,000 at a coming auction, reports Euronews.
Euronews writes:
… a small piece of the world-famous Eiffel Tower is looking for somewhere quieter… An original section of the tower’s spiral staircase – the very steps that carried the first visitors upward when the iconic Parisian monument opened in 1889 – is going under the hammer on 21 May, courtesy of auction house Artcurial.
Estimates put the likely sale price at between €120,000 and €150…
