Some of them are family values, and some are valued at millions of dollars
Sometimes people find unexpected things, and even ancient artifacts in the most unexpected places – in the yard, in landfills, attics or even in your own backyard.
Sometimes these finds is estimated at millions of dollars, and sometimes are just a family rarities, which in any case does not detract from their value.
A Steinway Grand Piano
Australia
On a garbage dump in Western Australia has been found valuable Steinway Grand piano worth $ 80,000. Musician wil Thomas was shocked when he stumbled on the still-working instrument, throwing your garbage on the landfill near Bruma.
Baseball glove
Norway
When 75-year-old owner of an apartment building in Trondheim, Norway has removed his warehouse, he found a dusty old chest, which remained closed for almost a century. Inside the chest were many high-quality sporting goods, including extremely rare and valuable baseball gloves, baseballs and bib, Dating back to approximately 1920.
The artifacts were made by Draper and Maynard, a leading company manufacture of the sports goods in new York around 1880 – 1930-ies. At one time 80 percent of the players in the MLB used baseball gloves of this company. The most expensive find was a glove babe Ruth, who was sold for 11 $ 600.
Jeans great-great-grandfather
AZ, USA
The Arizona resident Jock Taylor inherited the jeans of Levi’s, which more than a century spent in the old family chest. Judging by their size, jeans probably belonged to his great-great-grandfather, Solomon Warner, one of the first settlers in Arizona in the 1800s. His find was estimated at $ 80,000 as Levi’s, issued before 1900 are considered a great rarity. And the pants are so perfect condition never.
Packs of baseball cards
Tn, USA
The American guy from Tennessee, who wished to remain anonymous, made an amazing discovery – hundreds of unopened packs of cards depicting baseball players of the 1940s, 50s and 60s years, which are estimated at millions of dollars.
And discovered he is like the attic in the house of his aunt after her husband died. This deceased relative had a company that produced cards for a TV show, and at some point he acquired these baseball cards for their own research and development, but, apparently, and forgot about them.
Nazi memorial
Argentina
In a suburban house near Buenos Aires police found in a hidden room a collection of 75 of the Nazi artifacts. It is assumed that this memorabilia that belonged to high-ranking Nazi officials during world war II, which once again proves their existence in South America after the war.
Among the findings revealed a bust of Adolf Hitler, the statue of an eagle over a swastika, a knife, a box of children’s harmonicas and puzzles, an hourglass, a medical device which was used to measure the size of a human head, a sight for a mortar and negatives of photographs of Hitler holding a magnifying glass.
Camera with photos of the eruption
Oregon, USA
In the rare camera, found in a Portland thrift store, was a roll of undeveloped film. After developing showed a rare photograph showing eruption of 1980 at mount St. Helens, which is considered one of the most devastating volcanic eruptions in U.S. history (killed about 60 people, as well as damages in the amount of $ 1.1 billion) .
26 may 2017 photographer Kathy Dimoff found a camera Argus C2 1938 with a damaged roll of Kodachrome slide inside. She took her it in the company Blue Moon, which specializiruetsya processing, damaged film, and was eventually shocked to discover that some images had captured the eruption of mount St Helens from the yard of a house nearby.
3,000-year-old denture
Egypt
The daughter of an Egyptian priest lost his thumb about 3000 years ago. When she died, it was buried near Luxor in the cemetery is for elite members of society. In 2017, it remains with the prosthesis of the finger was found by Swiss scientists from the University of Basel.
The prosthesis is probably the oldest of its kind. It was made of wood and was equipped with panels that can be laced up to the denture sat tightly on his arm.
Prints Of Francisco Goya
France
In March 2017 at Chateau de Montigny in Evry-Loire, Northern France, accidentally discovered a complete set of engravings with images of fighting bulls, which were made by the artist Francisco de Goya. A month later at Sotheby’s in London these 33 prints were sold to an anonymous buyer for $ 530 000.
A set of etchings was hidden on the back of the library shelf, and was discovered during inspection of a new heirs. The etchings were created by the Spanish master in the years 1815-1816.
The Painting Of Jackson Pollock
AZ, USA
Representatives of the auction house J. Levine Auctions are invited to inspect the estate in sun city, Arizona in order to evaluate the memorabilia basketball team LA Lakers. Instead, the evaluators found a veritable treasure trove of paintings, including a rare painting by Jackson Pollock.
The painting will be auctioned at the end of this year, and it expects to gain up to $ 10 million.
60 rare cars
France
Recently in France there was discovered an unknown collection of 60 vintage cars of the 1930-ies – 1950-ies. Moreover, it was not just old cars and collectibles, some of which were produced in multiple copies.
Owner Roger Bayon died about ten years ago, and at that time, his son inherited his estate. After he died the youngest of Bayonne, his heirs decided to sell the collection. The cars are not in the best shape, but they are so rare that they are going to recover.
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