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Well, not exactly, but I've taken a page from the tabloid press and gone with the big headline. In short, a woman buys a painting at a garage sale for $5.00, later finds out it may be a Jackson Pollock, valued at $50 Million, but it's seldom as easy as that.
Read more here or here, or for a more detailed look at the controversy that enveloped the sale (or not), click here.
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And in Britain (always Britain, never France or Germany, why is that?) a couple cleaning out their parents possessions find an old vase and get it appraised. For roughly £ 1 million pounds. Not bad. Except that at auction the heavy Chinese buyers show up and splurge, read more here .... or here.
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Another find, courtesy of a metal-detectorist (metal-detective?) in Essex. Mind you, you can't plough a field there without turning up something, and bronze is a humble metal, but still... Read more here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11651691.
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A hobbiest and his metal detector uncover a rare Roman Parade helmet in a farmers field, estimated value $300,000 pounds. It later sells for over $2 million pounds at Christie's.
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What are the chances that any apartment would go untouched for 70 years, let alone in Paris? Still, when finally you enter there just might be some treasures....