Tuber magnatum pound ($2200–$4800 per kg); as of December 2009 they were being sold at $14,203.50 per kilogram. In November 1999, what was then the largest truffle in the world was found near Buje, Croatia. The truffle weighed and was entered in the "Guinness Book of Records". The record price paid for a single white truffle was set in December 2007, when Macau casino owner Stanley Ho paid $330,000 (£165,000) for a specimen weighing . One of the largest truffles found in decades, it was unearthed near Pisa, Italy, and sold at an auction held simultaneously in Macau, Hong Kong, and Florence.
Samuel Leigh Sotheby Strand, about 1817. Soon afterwards he took his son Samuel Leigh Sotheby into partnership, and in 1826 Messrs. Sotheby & Son printed a "Catalogue of the Collections sold by Messrs. Baker, Leigh, & Sotheby from 1744 to 1826". He died on 19 June 1861, drowning in the River Dart near Buckfastleigh, Devon. Samuel Leigh Sotheby Samuel Sotheby (31 August 1805 – 19 June 1861) was an English auctioneer and antiquary. He was born on 31 August 1805 in Hampstead, London, the son of Samuel Sotheby (1771–1842). The firm became Leigh, Sotheby, & Son in 1800, when John Sotheby's nephew Samuel