{"id":46471,"date":"2026-04-24T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=46471"},"modified":"2026-04-24T15:10:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T14:10:05","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-global-doorstep-eiffel-tower-staircase-up-for-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=46471","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the Global doorstep\u2019: Eiffel Tower staircase up for auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/360px-Eiffel_Tower_from_immediately_beside_it_Paris_May_2008_Arnaud_Ligny_commons_wikimedia.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/360px-Eiffel_Tower_from_immediately_beside_it_Paris_May_2008_Arnaud_Ligny_commons_wikimedia.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30995\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-7c83a09af0e380e9ff404e5b1f4bc3ab\"><em>image for illustration: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=36264111\">Arnaud Ligny &#8211; Tour Eiffel, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A staircase that once connected the tower&#8217;s second and third floors of the Eiffel Tower, is estimated to fetch between \u20ac120,000 and \u20ac150,000 at a coming auction, reports <em>Euronews.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Euronews writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026 a small piece of the world-famous Eiffel Tower is looking for somewhere quieter\u2026 An original section of the tower&#8217;s spiral staircase &#8211; the very steps that carried the first visitors upward when the iconic Parisian monument opened in 1889 &#8211; is going under the hammer on 21 May, courtesy of auction house Artcurial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Estimates put the likely sale price at between \u20ac120,000 and \u20ac150\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2026\/04\/10\/step-right-up-a-rare-piece-of-the-eiffel-tower-is-heading-to-auction\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>image for illustration: Arnaud Ligny &#8211; Tour Eiffel, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons A staircase that once connected the tower&#8217;s second and third floors of the Eiffel Tower, is estimated to fetch between \u20ac120,000 and \u20ac150,000 at a coming &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=46471\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[99,29,98],"class_list":["post-46471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-europe","tag-heritage","tag-paris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46472,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46471\/revisions\/46472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}