On May 21, the French auction house Artcurial will auction off a 137-year-old section of the Eiffel Tower's spiral staircase, The New York Times reports.

The lot represents part of the structure that once carried visitors from the tower's second level to its summit. The staircase was designed by engineer Gustave Eiffel and was dismantled in 1983 during the installation of elevators.

The structure was initially divided into 24 sections: four of them were donated to museums, while the remaining twenty were auctioned at various times. The fragment currently on display belongs to an unnamed French businessman and is once again up for sale.

The 2,7-meter-high section includes 14 steps. Its starting price is 120 thousand to 150 thousand euros (approximately 146 thousand to 176 thousand USD).

By comparison, a similar staircase fragment sold for 523 800 thousand in 2016, setting a record. Artcurial expects to surpass this figure.

Today, surviving sections of the original staircase are housed in several countries. In France, they are kept at the Musée d'Orsay and the City of Sciences and Industry; others are on display at the Statue of Liberty in New York and in the gardens of Japan's Yoishii Foundation.