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LOTS OF LOONINESS!

IT’S so small it’s practically invisible to the naked eye – but the price tag of this microscopic bag is anything but tiny.

It’s smaller “than a grain of sea salt and narrow enough to pass through the eye of a needle”, say its creators, the Brooklyn-based art collective MSCHF. That’s roughly 0,762mm wide. Yet the teeny florescent neon-green bag bearing Louis Vuitton’s signature monogram sold for a whopping $63 750 (R1,14m) at an online auction.

The Microscopic Handbag as it’s been dubbed sold for more than four times its $15 000 (R270 000) asking price, and the unidentified buyer also received a

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