Aged Ham Brings Home the Bacon

It was a lot of dough for a piece of old meat.

But butcher Michael Feller seemed not to mind the $1,480 auction price he paid for a 101-year-old ham, which he plans to hang in his shop.

The ham, cured by Cudahay in Chicago in 1892, spent most of its existence on display in a butcher’s shop in the northern city of Leeds, according to Christie’s, the London auction house that held the bidding.