15 Garage Sale Items That Sold For Millions

[Music] from a box of baseball cards estimated to be worth three million dollars to a man finding an official copy of the Declaration of Independence worth over two million dollars we take a look at 15 garage sale items that sold for millions number 15 attic owl painting Jane quarter II an art teacher in Hampshire discovered a detailed old owl painting in her attic after attempting to clean the space for a plumber she'd never seen the ornate owl but the paintings intricate brushwork caught her eye and she decided to email a photograph of it to Christie's auction house the attic artwork hit Christie's auction block far out selling its estimated price the winning bid was nine hundred and fifty one thousand and fifty bucks not quite a million dollars but hey still worthy of the list number 14 John Constable painting a lost painting sold for 3,500 pounds as the work of a John Constable copycat has been snapped up for a whopping 3.5 million pounds after it was revealed to be painted by the celebrated artist himself a collector snapped it up for 3,500 pounds in June of 2013 but after taking a closer look they suspected the original artwork had been painted over experts say the previously unknown painting is one of several preparatory sketches constable did before creating the masterpiece Salisbury Cathedral from The Meadows which was bought by the Tate Gallery just last year for 23 point 1 million pounds number 13 million dollar cabinet a long-lost 1.6 million dollar 17th century cabinet was found outside the toilets of a pizza parlor in Yorkshire England at a Sotheby's sale after the carved wooden base was reunited with its intricately decorated top half the cabinet which features a picture of the Pope blessing the crowd in Rome was sold for 1 million 84 thousand and five hundred pounds including the buyers premium number 12 Andy Warhol original sketch back in 2010 British businessman Andy Fields purchased a collection of five paintings from a Las Vegas garage sale five bucks when he decided to have one of the paintings reframed he discovered an early Andy Warhol sketch hidden behind him the sign drawing is believed to be of 1930 singer Rudy Vallee and was created when Warhol was just 10 years old Warhol paintings fetch absurd prices on the auction block the artist is considered to be the bellwether of the art market and the sketch is estimated to be worth a whopping two million dollars number 11 Ansel Adams negatives rick nor scission paid $45 for two boxes of glass plates in 2000 attracted to the plates because they depicted Yosemite National Park a place he had worked as a young man norsu Jian took the boxes away for the next two years after researching the plates which turned out to be photographic negatives norsu Jian became convinced that they had been captured by the father of American photography himself Ansel Adams with the plates authenticated norsu Jian was shocked to learn the negatives could be worth upwards of two hundred million dollars number 10 Pablo Picasso painting of all the places to stumble upon an original Picasso who would guess that one would show up at a trailer park in Shreveport Louisiana port Asia McNeill however that improbability became real when in 2009 she paid edith parker $2 for a painting purported to be fake that was signed by the master according to parker she kept looking at the picture and said well it don't look like much and it was in this cheap little frame it was estimated that the painting was worth two million dollars number nine magnolias on gold velvet cloth the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston has paid 1.25 million dollars for a still-life painting that for years covered a hole in the wall in an Indiana home it's value unknown to the owner and its existence unknown to art experts the painting magnolias on gold velvet cloth by the 19th century American painter Martin Johnson he was sold by a man in his 30s who works at a tool and die company started to realize the value of the work in January when he played masterpiece a board game about art that includes an image of a similar Heat number 8 Declaration of Independence in 1989 an unassuming analyst from Philadelphia discovered a folded print of the Declaration of Independence stowed away beneath a faded oil painting purchased for four dollars at a Pennsylvania flea market a shrewd friend of the buyer encouraged the man to have the document appraised as luck would have it the tattered copy turned out to be one of only 500 official copies from the declarations first printing of those 500 copies only 23 were known to have survived the passing of the years by the time the gavel dropped at the Sotheby's in 1991 the print had more than doubled its 1.2 million dollar estimate selling for an astounding 2.4 2 million dollars number 7 the old vase a brother and sister in Piner United Kingdom cleaned out the house belonging to their recently deceased parents they figured that this old vase that they found might be worth a few bucks so they decided to have it appraised they took it to the local auctioneer Bainbridge's in nearby ruse lip who were in turn excited by the find and valued it between 800,000 pounds and 1.2 million pounds however no one expected the reaction from Chinese buyers who pushed the bidding up over 30 frenzied minutes to a world record 43 million pounds the total price including Commission and v80 on commission was 53 million 105 thousand pounds number 6 coca-cola stock certificate in 2008 a California man named Tony Maroni bought a box of documents at a neighborhood garage sale for 5 bucks when he got home Marone examined his tank and noticed that one of the documents was a 1917 stock certificate for 1625 shares of the Palmer Union oil company with a little investigating Marone discovered that Palmer Union oil merged with a company and that company then merged again with Coke and according to the lawsuit his twice merged shares would entitle him to 1.8 million shares with an estimated 130 million dollars number five maser and chest this 17th century Japanese lacquer box was a masterpiece in its time and in our time stout enough to support a heavy television set it is now known as the Mazarin chest for several years the largest of the two Mazarin golden chests was considered lost it turns out that in 1970 the chest was sold for $160 to a French engineer who worked for shelled petroleum the engineer used it as a TV stand in his south Pennington apartment for 16 years phillipe react found Mazarin s lost golden chest in a house in terrain propping up Spiritist beverages it sold at auction for 7.3 million euros number four Jackson Pollock painting Terry Horton is a former long-haul truck driver and a bit of a harsh negotiator in the mid-1990s Horton purchased and ugly painting from a local yard sale with no real use for the painting Horton considered selling it but reconsidered after a friend suggested it may have been created by world-renowned abstract painter Jackson Pollock Horton then hired a forensic art expert the expert Paul biro was able to match a partial fingerprint on Hortons painting to one that appeared on an old paint can from Pollock studio it's estimated to be worth about 50 million dollars number three baseball cards while cleaning out the attic of their late grandfather's Defiance Ohio House Carl Kistner and Carla hench unknowingly made the dream of baseball card collectors everywhere come to life while Kistner was cleaning out the attic with his cousin hench the two stumbled on a soot covered cardboard box that was underneath a wooden dollhouse that box contains 700 cards from 1910 that have been valued at up to three million dollars a discovery some experts are calling the most incredible find of rare baseball cards in history number two Imperial Faberge egg in 2004 an unidentified man purchased a golden egg at a flea market intending to sell it for its scrap value he ended up holding on to it for ten years until it was discovered that the was one of the eight missing Imperial Faberge eggs when he contacted Kieran McCarthy an expert in Russian artifacts who recounted that his spine was shivering as he estimated the eggs value at nearly 30 million dollars number one the bowl a New York family picked up a Chinese bowl at a garage sale for three dollars and found out that it's actually a one thousand year old treasure worth 2.2 million dollars the bowl ceramic five inches in diameter with a sawtooth pattern etched around the outside was eventually sold to a London dealer Guiseppe s cannot see at the Sotheby's auction house in New York in March of 2013 Sotheby's said the bowl was from the northern song dynasty which ruled China from 960 to 11:27 and is known for its cultural and artistic advances

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Published: Fri Aug 28 2015