More often than not , one person ’s garbage is also another individual ’s garbage . These are the exception to the prescript .
1. ITEM: FLOYD LANDIS’S BICYCLE - $5
Sold For : $ 8000
Although Floyd Landis was strip of his Tour de France title , it did n’t stop him from cycling . In 2008 , a blow of wind vaunt one of his bicycle off the vehicle transporting it . It was found on the side of the interstate and trade to Greg Estes at a garage sale .
2. 17TH-CENTURY PAINTING “PREPARATION TO ESCAPE EGYPT” - $215
Sold for : $ 27,630
In 2007 , a German scholarly person visited a Berlin flea market place and came home with a newfangled fallback sofa . When she open up it , she did n’t discover free change or a mislay outside control — she found a Venetian picture .
3. PAINTING BY ANTHONY VAN DYCK - $660
Not yet sell : Estimated at $ 660,000
Father Jamie McLeod , a Catholic priest , bought the painting at an antique store , but only for its amber frame . Later , Antiques Roadshowconfirmed it was the work of the top court puma of King Charles I.
4. ANDY WARHOL CHILDHOOD SKETCH - $5
Worth : estimate $ 2 million
Andy Fields bought five shitty cartoon at a Sin City service department sale . One picture boasted Warhol ’s preadolescent signature .
5. 11TH-CENTURY CHINESE BOWL - $3
deal for : $ 2.2 million
In 2013 , a New York family bought a dish no bigger than a cereal bowl at a service department sale . The piece was actually 1000 geezerhood old !
6. ORIGINAL COPY OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE - $4
Sold for : $ 2.42 million
In 1989 , a Philadelphia man corrupt a cruddy painting at a flea market . While he was investigating a teardrop in the canvas , the bod broke apart and out come down a small folded written document . It was one of 24 surviving copies of the original 1776 Declaration .
7. ORIGINAL VELVET UNDERGROUND DEMO LP - $0.75
sell for : $ 26,200
cast a Manhattan flea grocery in 2002 , Warren Hill happen a sleeveless LP with “ Velvet Underground … 4/25/66 ” scrawled on the label . It was the same demo phonograph record Columbia Records had rejected !
8. ANSEL ADAMS NEGATIVES - $45
Worth , if authentic : About $ 200 million
Rick Norsigian bought these negatives depicting American landscapes at a Fresno service department sale in 2000 . Some expert assert they belong to Ansel Adams , while others think they were snapped by Earl Brooks .
