8 People Who Accidentally Finds Luck

1. Men - men who buy the official copy of the Declaration of Independence at a price $ 4

A man who is not known, bought the painting rip $ 4 at a flea market in Adamstown.Pa, because he was interested in its frame. When he got home he took out a sad state landscape painting and concludes painting can not be saved, but he found one of 500 official copies of the Declaration of Independence, folded and hidden in the back. A copy is clean and the form of leaflets, lined along the line where it has been folded.Copies printed by John Dunlap on July 4, 1776, to bring news of American independence to the residents of the 13 colonies. This is one of 24 who is known as a copy of the Declaration, and one of three remaining in private hands.
A copy was auctioned for $ 4 to $ 2,420,000 at Sotheby's. The buyer was Donald J. Scheer of Atlanta, president of Visual Equities Inc.

2. The elderly woman who found the 140 yr old baseball cards in the basement.

Bernice Gallego, 72 years old California. A woman who found a rare baseball card of the first professional team in the United States at his home. And if not for the intervention of a friend, he probably will sell the Cincinnati Red Stockings cards on eBay for $ 10. The front of the card features a dark brown, gelatin-silver print photos from the entire team. Relative team photo without damage.
In 19th-century baseball card sold at auction for $ 75,285.

3. A contractor who found $ 182,000 in the bathroom.

Apparently, the bathroom can be very useful to hide your money. A contractor Bob Kitts from Cleveland, Ohio who found $ 182,000 from the Age of Depression-era money hidden in the bedroom wall tore mandi.Kitts bathroom walls of an old house with 83-year-old near Lake Erie in 2006 when he discovered two green metal lockboxes hanging on the wall below the medicine cabinet, using a wire. Inside are white envelope with an address for "P. Dunne News Agency. "He told the homeowner about the money; it spread quickly about the discovery. This led to legal battles between homeowners and contractors, and finally earned money given to the descendants of families whose address has been traced back to the sender's address listed on the envelope the money was found.

4. The woman who found the Pollock painting worth millions, with only paying $ 5.

If you are not a connoisseur of art, it seems like a bunch of squiggly lines. But for an expert, the discovery is a wonderful thing from the original work of Jackson Pollock, an American painter and an artist regarded as a master of abstract expressionism.

How the painting until and sold in local galleries Toronto is still a mystery. You may recall an amazing story about a woman who frequently visited the cheap shops around North America. When he visited one of them in California in the 1990s, he saw a picture lying unused in the corner, a work of art that seemed no one wanted it.

He does not like it, but he thought it was funny. And he would buy for a friend who is stressed. And she Brought it to the counter and the lady said it was $ 8 and Teri said she's willing to pay $ 5, she does not love her friend That much. And he brought the painting to the counter and the price is $ 8, Teri said she was willing to pay $ 5.
In the end the painting is known is the work of Pollock and is priced at $ 50 million.

5. A collector who found $ 200,000 in coins

Jeff Bidelman, an owner of Collectibles Johnstown, was helping the family clean their house which had been abandoned more than twenty years ago. When he dragged the bag of old coins at the bottom, he saw a hole in the wall upstairs. When the bag until it rips, a pile of gold coins ditemukan.Secara total, Bidelman found at least $ 8,500 coins. He estimates the actual value of coins to reach $ 200,000.

6. Students who found a painting worth more than $ 27,000 on a couch purchased at a flea market.

A German student to buy a sofa for $ 215 in Berlin flea market and found a painting worth 100 times the price of the couch in the couch. According to auction house Kettler, oil painting was sold for $ 27,630 at auction diHamburg. This painting is painted by an unknown artist in the year ranging from 1605 to 1620.

7. People who bought the painting for $ 30 is worth $ 1.2 million.

One day, an employee of a company in Indiana spent $ 30 for some furniture and old paintings of flowers and decided to hang the picture to cover a hole in the wall that has been bothering him.

A few years later he played a board game called Masterpiece in which players try to auction off artwork. Many of his surprise, one of the cards in a game featuring flower paintings that looked very similar to the paintings on the walls of his house. He saw that the painting was similar to the work of Martin Johnson Heade, an American painter who paints landscapes and flowers.

He asked the Kennedy Galleries in Manhattan, which handles the works of Heade, to see the paintings.They verify that the artwork that covers the hole in the wall of his house is Heade paintings that have been known previously, then the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston bought the painting for $ 1.2 million dollars

8. Women who find a rare movie posters that many copies

Photo by Melissa Haneline Laura Stouffer holds an "All Quiet on the Western Front" movie window cards That she found behind a 1930s lithograph she Bought in its original frame at a Goodwill store in Summerville. Photo taken July 18, 2007 at Stouffer's Summerville home. Readers Interested in the poster cans Stouffer email at allquietposter@hotmail.com

Laura Stouffer was browsing at a flea market in Summerville, looking for anything that could catch his poster that he found, when he saw traces of a framed "Shepherd's Call," a painting depicting a border collie sheep lost in the piles of snow. The original was created in 1850 and the late 1870s by three different artists.
Stouffer, a former antique dealer, immediately recognized him.