Title of short Kipling story - magic item that turns against the owner who must sell for progressively less $?

Question

I'm looking for the title of a short story I would like to re-read. I am 99% positive it was by Rudyard Kipling. Setting included slums of India where eventually no one will buy the magic item (lamp?) for any price. The male protagonist acquires the item for a large sum of pounds because he believes it will make his wife happy and well again. All appears well, until it turns against them somehow. Each time it changes hands it must be sold for progressively lower and lower sums. The units used are pounds,shilling, pence, etc. Whoever is left with it is ruined.

Thank you to the Yahoo Answers community. I'll keep my fingers crossed that someone knows this one.

That darn 1%. It has been years, and I was mixing my literary recollections.

Yes, it is the story "The Bottle Imp" by RLS.
Thank you thank you. and for the link so I can get to re-reading it right away.

Answer 1

It's "The Bottle Imp" by Robert Louis Stevenson. I'm positive, it's the Bottle Imp Paradox you just described. It's in his book "Island Nights Entertainments" and it's from 1891.

Answer 2

Not quite as you specify, since here the item *must not* be sold, but I'm pretty certain the story is

The Bisara Of Pooree (see below)

There may be another tale, or the money element has come in from a similar non-Kipling tale. (but it's not "The Monkey's Paw")

Edit: I give Georges best.
There's definitely a genre of "dangerous wish artefact" stories.