Happy discoveries (8 photos) Bashny.Net

The man who bought the American Declaration of Independence for $ 4

One man once bought a shabby picture at a flea market in the city of Adamstown, United States because of its original limits. When he took work home - dull landscape - from the frame, it turned out that underneath it is one of the 500 official copies of the Declaration of Independence, folded and apparently forgotten by the owner. This instance, among others, John Dunlop was printed July 4, 1776 to spread the good news in the thirteen American colonies. At first glance, 500 copies - a lot, and the value of such a copy is not very big, but found only 24 copies, all three of them, including this one, are in private hands. So the happy owner of the serious cash by investing $ 4 and sold for 2,420,000 dollars document at Sotheby's president of Visual Equities Inc, Shire Donald (Donald J. Scheer).



grandmother discovered the old sports photos

Bernice Kalego (Bernice Gallego), 72-year-old woman from California has found at home in the trash one of the first photographs of the American baseball team. Given the passion of Americans to this incomprehensible sport, you can see an old woman who has decided to put a photograph on the online auction site eBay for a starting price of $ 10. The authenticity of the image was confirmed by the Securities Association of the United States (PSA), on the other side is a sports equipment store ads Peck & Snyder. After intense bidding photos were sold for the sum of more than 75 thousand dollars.



How to find 182,000 dollars in the bathroom

It turns out that the builder be very interesting. Besides salaries can sometimes find different gifts repaired areas. For example, Bob Kitts (Bob Kitts) from Cleveland Demolition walls in the bathroom of a building when the accident found two metal boxes, immured in a wall in which there were more than 182 thousand US dollars sample Great Depression. Inside was an envelope with a return address of the form «P. Dunne News Agency ». History is silent to whom the money and ktov eventually got them. As you know, immediately after finding this treasure between the builder, real owners of the house and family of his past owners of a heated debate. Who won - is unclear, it is possible that the builder has got a smaller part, if at all, something has got to. Otherwise about this discovery is not written on the Internet.



The woman, a strange picture and Jackson Pollack

If you are not a specialist in contemporary art, then look at the picture above, will only see the jumble of multicolored lines, otherwise there supposed reverently breathe and cry - it's a natural Jackson Pollack, an American artist and a master of abstract art! Now this picture is for sale in the gallery Toronto. The history of a long journey of this picture is. Once there was a woman named Terry Horton, a truck driver, and who loved to go shopping across North America. In one of these shops, in California, in the 1990s, she saw a large picture of the dusty, curled in a corner and probably all forgotten and no unnecessary. Terry's picture is not very much, but she decided to buy it for his depressive friend to cheer him up. Bargain with 8 to $ 5, she brought to the canvas, suggesting in which case leave the picture darts. The friend turned out to be an art teacher, who said, "I think you get the picture of Jackson Pollock." Terry decided to find out who he is, and from that moment everything started to happen. Now a picture is worth $ 50 million, and this seems to be the most profitable in the history of the purchase.



Man found 200 thousand dollars ... a trifle

Jeff Bidelman (Jeff Bidelman), owner of Johnstown Rare Collectibles, helped one family with the move, after their families had lived there for about 20 years. Carrying the bag on the steps with the old coins, he noticed a hole in the top of the stairs, which he was very interested. After the "opening" steps under it showed up bag with gold coins in the amount of $ 8,500 face value. The real value of this heap of coins was about $ 200,000. That is what it means to help and mutual!



Picture of 27,000 dollars in the couch

German student bought an old sagging sofa in the market in Berlin for 215 dollars. Trying to spread out of his house, he discovered painting by an unknown artist in the period of the early 17th century, which was valued at 27,600 dollars. The size of the picture 25 by 38 centimeters, and for the money it was sold at auction in Hamburg. Name of the painting - "Preparation to escape to Egypt" (where they learned it?), Written by an unknown artist canvas close in style to the Venetian master Carlo Saratseni in the period from 1605 by 1620. Name of the student is also not disclosed.



Again, "cheap" picture

Once the employee automobile dealer in Indiana spent as much as 30 dollars for a few units / used furniture and pretty nice picture, which he closed the hole in the wall for a long time spoils the whole look. A few years later, he and his comrades played a board game «Masterpiece», in which the players involved in the auction, buying and selling a variety of well-known paintings. Ironically, one of the cards, he saw a familiar web which, as it turned out, was painted by American artist Martin Hide's (Martin Johnson Heade), known for its landscapes and floral still lifes. Owner immediately invited the experts from the Kennedy Galleries in Manhattan, which confirmed that the film covering the hole in the wall, is a previously unknown work of this artist, who has been named as the Magnolias on Gold Velvet Cloth. In 1999, the Houston Museum bought the painting for $ 1.2 million.



Very expensive poster

Stoufer Laura (Laura Stouffer) looked at the rubble of one of the markets (a bonanza, as you might think) in Sammervile, in an attempt to entertain. Among other things, she noticed an old poster titled «Shepherd's Call», depicting a dog, look for lamb in the snowdrifts. The second name of this figure - «Found» (found), the original was painted at least three times by different artists in the period from 1850 to 1870. Laura, who earned reselling antiquities, immediately assessed the find. Moreover, when it is divided and actually drawing board substrate. it turned out. there is hidden a rare treasure - movie poster 30s of the 20th century «All Quiet on the Western Front». This finding, according to experts, is worth up to 20 thousand dollars. Strange, who will pay money for such a poster?