Apparently a woman found a million dollar painting in the trash on the curb.
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Apparently a woman found a million dollar painting in the trash on the curb.
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Another woman found an old cello lying in the trash, took it home, and asked her boyfriend to either repair it or turn it into a funky CD rack. However, before he got around to it, she saw a news report and was dumbfounded to discover that it was in fact a priceless stolen Stradivarius.
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One of my favourite Antiques Roadshow items was the one where a woman brought in a grotty looking old helmet, the kind from a suit of armour. Turned out it was excessively rare from medieval Italy and worth $250,000.
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This is my favorite. They didn’t even buy the thing - it was lying around in their attic, put there by some previous resident of the house. And it really looked like nothing, maybe part of a vase or something.