13 Valuable Things Found In Abandoned Places

for money to art to comics artifacts and more comics it's incredible some of the things that can be found in some of the most unexpected places these people weren't anticipating stumbling across the things they did but one thing's for sure they're all lucky here we bring you a list of 13 valuable things found in abandoned places number 13 Parisian pay day in 2010 following the sad passing a 91 year old woman in Paris the woman's family assigned an auctioneer by the name of Oliver Chopin angry to visit her apartment and take stock of what was inside when he and his team entered they got a surprise that they weren't quite expecting the time capsule of an apartment that was locked up and left behind in the 1940s and never visited again the contents of the apartment stayed just as they were 70 years previously and a lo she never returned the woman continued to pay the rent on the space until her passing inside she opened and Ray and his team found everything from old books and newspapers old hair brushes and perfumes and stuffed animals most amazing discovery however came in the form of a painting the painting was of the apartment owners grandmother on the lounge shrouded in an evening gown and it was done by the famed Giovanni Baldini a famous 19th century Italian artist in the end the paintings sold for 2.1 million euros number 12 not so Saint Nick good old Nicholas Cage had an expensive item stolen from his house in 2000 only to have somebody stumble across it over a decade later in 2011 inside an old storage locker a comic book Action Comics number one to be exact was thought to be lost forever but was found and returned to the actor after a man bought a storage locker containing the comic book amongst everything else inside it was eventually put up for auction and sold for 2.16 million dollars it's believed that instead of just letting the man keep the comic that had been lost for 11 years already or the money cage may have reclaimed it and have auctioned it himself like he needs any more money okay maybe he does number 11 valuable cards sometime in 2015 a group of urban explorers literally stumbled across a fortune they were inside of an abandoned warehouse Troi when they found crates filled with millions of old tops trading cards while there weren't any especially rare cards in the hoard the sheer number of cards spanning MLB the NHL and NASCAR meant a big payday the card should technically belong to whoever owns the building but seeing as no one had been there for years it was kind of a case of Finders Keepers one man now sells them online and makes enough to survive so get on him we'll just hope that nobody comes to reclaim what they left behind and starts breaking kneecaps gotta find a way to make a buck on those mean motor city streets number two dumpster diving all right so you can imagine being down on your luck so down on your luck that you resort to hobbing up inside a big old dumpster and begin searching for hidden treasures now imagine stumbling across a winning scratch ticket inside said dumpster taking it in and finding out it's a winner that's exactly what happened to an 83 year old Massachusetts man named Edward st. John sadly somebody else tried to claim the discarded ticket as their own and even took them to court over it forcing him to settle for only part of the winnings as he's old and wanted to enjoy some of the money before well you know if he had tried to fight it in court the battle could have gone on for who knows how long no trash can art so back in 2003 a woman named Elizabeth Gibson went on a nice little stroll for some coffee when she came upon a big abstract canvas tucked away between some garbage bags in New York City she was drawn to it immediately but wasn't quite sure why and almost ended up passing it by after talking herself out of doing that foolish thing she took it home with her and after a little research found out that it was three people a painting stolen nearly 20 years beforehand done by a Rufino Tamayo a twentieth-century Mexican artist three people had been stolen from the previous owner storage unit that was placed in as they moved houses the painting is said to be in miraculously excellent condition and was valued around 1 million dollars number 8 super storage a man from San Jose California lucked out when he put in a $1,100 bid for a storage unit that yielded him far more than that turn the guy's name is John and the bounty was found in gold and silver bars in a Rubbermaid container inside the unit he purchased while you're only able to decide on the purchase of a unit by glimpsing what you can from the outside this John fellow was indeed taking a chance when he forked over the $1100 but we'd be willing to bet he's sure glad he did as the contents of the container were valued at over five hundred thousand dollars what if hey day number seven hold on the wall jeff bittleman a man tasked with cleaning out an abandoned home in 2007 stumbled upon a fortune in rare old collectible coins he was helping the children of the most recent owners clean out the house and while dragging a pack of coins down the stairs he noticed a hole in the wall upstairs when he asked the daughter of the deceased residents about the hole she told him jokingly it was where her parents threw money that you decided to investigate further tearing through the old wall and found out that the joke wasn't such a joke anymore their surprise inside of the hole was a wealth of old valuable coins they range in age minted from 1826 through 1964 a few dating all the way back to 1793 among the cash were seated Liberty dimes and large sense they catalogued the face value of the coins at around $8,500 but the value to collectors is much higher they were appraised around $100,000 but bittleman expressed that they thought they could get much more for the loop two hundred thousand was the number he proposed mr. lucky bitumens luck ran out in 2013 though when he was caught up in a stolen savings bond scam and sentenced to nine months of house arrest and 36 months of probation number sakes what's with the comics what's with people or animal finding comic books that are worth a whole bunch of money Action Comics number one keeps popping up in all the right places apparently up in good old cold old Minnesota somebody thought it was a good idea to use their comic books as insulation instead of reading or collecting them like a reasonable person when they discover just what they had in their walls they decided to see how much it was worth and the beat-up old comic turned out to be pretty valuable it fetched a hundred and seventy five thousand dollars to be exact here's a thought maybe they can just pay the heating bill now instead of stuffing their walls with paper number five was cycling riches at a recycling plant a worker named Mike Rogers stumbled across something a little unusual in a barrel amidst a bunch of scrap metal and kitchen appliances old savings bonds that totaled up to roughly twenty to a thousand dollars instead of pocketing the valuable find heinous wife took the time to do some research to see if they could find the rightful owner sure enough one man had all the right answers to all the right questions and Mike being the good old guy he is gave them back you're not sure how the bonds wound up at the plant in the first place but one thing's for sure Mike was literally disguised saving grace number four ancient artifacts junk removal specialist nick de mola was tasked with cleaning out an apartment that once belonged to abstract artists Clinton Hill Hills estate paid to molds company to clean out the apartment an accompanying storage and that's when de mola came across an old barrel that was set aside and thought to be trash said barrel was left at a warehouse for years forgotten by all until one day he decided it might be worthwhile to take a peek inside what he found were dozens of ancient Mexican artifacts that consisted of jugs bowls and figurines needed to be between 300 BC and 500 AD due to the contract between him and Hills estate de mola didn't have to return the artifacts - and says he probably plans on selling them in the future just one of the pieces stone ax God was appraised at $1,000 making him a lucky guy he were three cold hard cash back in 2011 a man named Josh Ferran ran across a giant sum of cash in his home and instead of spending it he did what his heart told him was right and contacted the previous owners of the house it turns out the father of the household had passed away not long beforehand and had spent years and years saving up all the money to provide for his family when he was gone Farren admits that at first thoughts of his own financial situation flashed through his head but he looked past that and founded in himself to do the right thing an artist and author Farren says he knows what it's like to spend a lot of time on something I want to see it come to fruition well seems that he sure helped a dream come to pass number two tubular time capsule in 2013 in Tennessee one Reddit user hit the jackpot when going through his grandparents phone that had been left to his father who recently passed when he found no use for the house the man decided to sell it and while doing renovations and getting it ready he stumbled upon something extraordinary a safe buried in a block of cement placed under the carpet in a downstairs room that looks as though it hadn't been touched for years after trying several of his grandfather's other safe combinations which proved incorrect man was all but ready to rip his hair out not to mention the safe from the floor using his brain he called a locksmith and after a lot of hard work they got it open inside were old coin books jewelry and rolls upon rolls of coins the loot is said to be worth thousands more thank you mr. Hancock back in 1991 and our collector purchased a painting at a flea market in Pennsylvania because he took a liking to the frame little did he know hid him behind said frame was an official copy of the Declaration of Independence the man purchased the national treasure for the small sum of four dollars which is incredible considering it yielded roughly six hundred and five thousand times that amount the frame somehow managed to preserve the document making the copy quote unspeakably fresh right now there are only 24 known surviving the original copies of the Declaration three of which are in private hands the flea market find was unpacked making it one of just seven copies to be so which also increased its value previously the record for an official copy sold for 1.6 million in 1990 the fresh to death on back copies sold for two million four hundred and twenty thousand at auction making up for having to spend an entire day at a flea market

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Id: HdckKOGxH2c

Length: 10min 13sec (613 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 15 2018