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Actor Rob Gough paid $5.2 million for a piece of cardboard in January 2021. Well, that’s one way to put it. Another way is to say that he bought a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle rookie card in mint condition with a PSA 9 rating—1 of 6 known to be in existence. "I always dreamt of owning a 1952 Topps Mickey…

What’s a pair of sneakers worth? In April of 2021, “Auction company Sotheby's announced on Monday that Kanye West's Nike Air Yeezy 1 Prototype shoes have sold for a record-breaking $1.8 million through a private sale to sneaker investing platform RARES.” https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2021/04/26/Kanye-West-Nike-Air-Yeezy-auction-Sothebys/1851619448461/…

An anonymous man paid $35.00 for a beautiful bowl at a garage sale near New Haven, Connecticut in 2020 and sold it for over $700,000.00 at a Sotheby’s auction. The rare, 15th-century Ming dynasty artifact was expected to fetch “between $300,000.00 and $500,000.00,” but fared much better. What a shame…

When Howard Kirby noticed a firm area in the thrift store couch he bought for his man cave he tried to discover and fix the problem. The “problem” turned out to be $43,170 in cash. Even though an attorney said he could legally keep the money, Kirby reached out to the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Owosso,…

A 90-year-old Frenchwoman was preparing to move. She had an auctioneer come to value her furniture to dispose of it at auction. Hanging in the kitchen was a tempera panel which the woman believed was an old Russian icon that she had for decades. Her plan was to throw it away. The auctioneer thought it…

An old painting hanging in the kitchen of an elderly French woman made her a multimillionaire. The women did not think the painting was worth much, but when an auctioneer saw it, he suggested she bring it to experts for an evaluation. The painting turned out to be a rare masterpiece from 13th-century…

Is it possible to be too rich? When the Good’s daughter left for college, her parents inherited her cats. Their San Jose, Calif., apartment complex doesn’t allow animals. Rather than abandon the felines, the Goods found a studio apartment and hired the landlord to tend to the animals. The studio costs…

Acting on a tip, the FBI recovered a pair of ruby red slippers Judy Garland wore in the movie The Wizard of Oz. Thieves took them from a Minnesota museum thirteen years ago. They were insured for $1,000,000 but experts told the BBC they were probably worth twice that much. How could a pair of shoes be…

We lose track of the significant when we obsess in the unimportant stuff. Police in Bothell, Washington have had to request that residents stop dialing 911 to report that they cannot log on to Facebook. “We will move mountains to help those in our community,” said a police spokesman. “However, we can’t…

A bag containing traces of moon dust collected on the first manned moon mission in 1969 recently sold for $1.8 at auction. Due to a clerical error, the bag sold on an online auction in 2015. Though NASA officials went to court to get the artifact back, the court decided that while it should not have…

I am sure you have heard the saying, “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure,” but what if I told you that sperm whale vomit can be worth millions of dollars, would you believe me? Three men in the small town of Oman, in the Arabian Peninsula, found a large, waxy substance floating near their fishing…

There are many stories of valuable cars found hidden away in barns and a find in France is more proof that many of those stories are true. An elite auction house received a call from the representative of an estate that included a collection of very rare old cars that had not been touched in more than…

A visit to Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds State Park turned out to profitable for Susie Clark when she found a diamond the size of pinto bean. She says she plans to keep the diamond and since she found it after saying a prayer, she calls it “Hallelujah Diamond.” Clark says she first visited the park with…

It just looked like a mutt wandering the streets. Further research found that it was a rare South African Mastiff stolen from his yard in Beaverdam, Virginia. What looked like a lonely mutt was actually a pure bred dog worth over $10,000. His owner was ecstatic to get him back. —Jim L. Wilson and Rodger…

You never know where you may find a hidden treasure. A West Point sweater purchased at a Goodwill store last June turned out to be an incredible bargain. A couple purchased the sweater for 58 cents and didn’t think much about it until they saw a documentary on legendary Green Bay Packers coach Vince…

Police in Germantown, Wisconsin are puzzled over who might have left a diamond ring on their Christmas tree. The tree was set up in the department’s lobby during the Christmas season, and the police had invited people to bring their children to decorate the tree and get a stuffed animal in return. They…

Apple announced that they recovered more than 40 million dollars from their trash. The company recovered more 2,200 pounds of gold from recycled iPhones, iPads, and Macs. With gold valued at over $1,200 an ounce, the company gained over $40 million dollars from the recycling venture. Manufacturers use…

Amsterdam has such a big problem with bicycles being thrown into the city’s canals that it is a full time job fishing them out to redeem them. Every day a crew patrols the canals in a boat with a large claw attached. They dredge the bottom of the canal pulling in the bikes and other items that wind up…

When Laurence Egerton’s metal detector turned up something of extraordinary value, he went to great lengths to protect it. Egerton routinely founds old shotgun cartridges and metal junk, but when his detector went off as he was surveying near the site of ancient Roman villa, he knew he had a unique find.…

Have you heard about the Panasonic Virtual Mirror? It has the ability to analyze the face of the mirror gazer and then pinpoint imperfections. It maps sun damage, scars, and wrinkles and then recommends products to aid in the treatment of these perceived faults. Do you think this is a good idea? Men,…

A painting that had been hanging on the wall of man’s home for more than ten years turned out to be worth a lot more that the $745 that he paid for it. Jamie MacLeod took the painting to be evaluated by the BBC television program, Antiques Roadshow, because he hoped to sell it and use the proceeds to…

In 1970, an engineer bought a plain looking wooden chest for about $150. All he wanted was something to put his television on. For the next 43 years, the wooden chest, known as the Mazarin chest sat in the man’s living room. What the man did not know about his television stand was that it was hand crafted…

A Bible signed by renowned physicist Albert Einstein sold at a New York City auction for $68,500. The final price exceeded pre-sales estimates by thousands. Most observers believed that at best the rare Bible would bring between $1,500 and $2,500. The Bible was signed by both the Nobel prize-winning…

Published January 29, 2013 FoxNews.com A California book repairer reportedly knew something was unusual when she opened up an old Bible found last week amid thousands of materials donated to the Friends of the Sacramento Public Library. But little did she know that the 31 signatures on the Bible’s first…

In 1952, 14-year-old- Dave Bell bit into a candy bar, and found a twig inside. He wrote the Pearson Candy Company a letter seeking a replacement bar and included the twig as his proof. He received a letter from George Pearson, the son of one the company’s founders. Person apologized for the twig and…