10 rare things found in second-hand stores

Is it possible for a song to buy at a flea market or second-hand picture, which is nearly 200 thousand dollars? Or document, which then will go under the hammer for more than two million? Yes!

This does not mean that it is necessary to gather second-hand. Luck somehow almost always exclusively to the Americans. Yes and that is very rare.

1. In 2012 the artist Beth Fibak bought in a thrift store a couple of paintings for $ 9.99. After her attentive friend found one of them the signature of an abstract painter Ilya Bolotovsky. At the Sotheby's painting was sold for 34 $ 375.

2. Unlike Beth Fibak, Zach Norris purposefully hunted for valuables at garage sales, flea markets and second-hand. In the end he was lucky: in Phoenix, he found a watch Jaeger-LeCoultre, bought them less than six dollars and sold one of the sites for 35 thousand.

3. Couple Sean and Rikki McEvoy in a thrift store in Asheville bought an old sweater, which, as it turned out, belonged to the American football player and coach Vince Lombardi. At auction they sold it for 43 thousand $ 20.

4. Strange bowl, bought in a thrift store in Sydney for four of the Australian dollar, was sold at Sotheby's for 75 $ 640. The experts found: this was a Chinese XVII century Cup made from Rhino horn.

5. Breitling Top Time watch was specially made by a Swiss company for the film "Thunderball" with Sean Connery. In the story, the specialists of the British intelligence built into this watch is a Geiger counter that bond was able to detect two nuclear NATO bombs stolen by terrorists. According to the owner, who sold the clock at auction at Christie's in July 2013, he bought them at a flea market for £ 25.

6. 81-year-old retiree from Massachusetts in 2006, for three dollars and bought the painting, which he only knew one thing: she's very old. A year later, his resourceful daughter went to the antique dealers who appreciated the find 20-30 thousand dollars. In the end, the painting by an unknown Flemish master of the seventeenth century, was sold at auction for 190 thousand.

7. At the art Museum in Philadelphia a American saw the work of sculptor Alexander Calder, reminded her of a necklace she had bought three years earlier at a flea market. In September 2013 she sold the necklace for 267 $ 750.

8. Two Americans were lucky with the Declaration of independence. More precisely, with its copies. Sound engineer from Nashville (Tennessee) Michael sparks among the old things in the thrift shop found a copy of this document and sold at auction Raynors' Historical Collectible Auctions for 477 $ 650.

9. A resident of Philadelphia in 1989, bought at a flea market, the painting between the canvas and the frame where you found a copy of the Declaration of independence in 1776. In 1991, he sold it at Sotheby's Donald Scheer for $ 2.4 million. In 2000 the enterprising Scheer put it on the same auction and sold for 8 million.

10. Metal dealer bought an item for 14 thousand dollars and intended to sell it for fifteen thousand. Fortunately, he did some surfing and found in The Telegraph detailing their findings. Found egg — one of the first creations of Faberge: Alexander III presented this egg to his wife Maria Feodorovna for Easter in 1887. Relic was sold to a private collector for $ 33 million.