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Velvet Underground Record
Paid: $0.75Worth: $25,000
A Canadian man purchased this VU album in Montreal for just $.075. later, he was able to sell it for $25,000 on eBay.
The Declaration of Independence
Paid: $2.48Work: $477,650
A man in Tennessee brought what he thought was a cheap replica of The Declaration of Independence. Turned out, after some online research, he had one of William J. Stone’s reproductions. He sold the reproduction at an auction for $466,650.
18th Century Card TablePaid: $25Worth: $541,500
Before you selling of that old furniture you have around the house, you better be sure its not worth half a million dollars!
A women in New Jersey picked up this 18th century card table for $25. She had the table sitting around her home for close to 30 years until she took it PBS Antiques Roads, which was at estimated to be worth between $200,00 to $300,000. The table was later sold at action for $541,000.
Andy Warhol SketchPaid: $5Worth: $2 Million
When a British Businessman went to a yard sale in 2010, he purchased a sketch of singer Rudy Vallee by a young kid.
Little did he knew the kid was Andy Warhol! The Sketch is valued at around $2 Million Dollars, although the sketch has yet to be sold.
Northern Song Dynasty Bowl
Paid: $3Worth: $2.2 Million
The final and the best find thus far in yard sale history.
A New York family purchased this bowl from a garage sale for just $3. Once the family had the piece identified as a piece from China’s Northern Song Dynasty it was estimated to be worth between $200,000 - $300,000.
When they sold the bowl at Sotheby’s, they got 10 times what it was valued at! The bowl sold for a staggering $2.2 million.
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