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My father just called me to let me know about this article in the new:
“A mysterious 19th-century photograph bought on eBay for just $10 could be worth $2 million after experts identified it as an extremely rare portrait of infamous outlaw Jesse James.
“Justin Whiting, who lives in Spalding, U.K., bought the tintype for just 7 U.K. pounds ($10) in July 2017. He noticed a marked similarity between the youth in the picture and a photo of James in a book.
“Described as a sort of “19th-century Polaroid,” tintype photos were created by applying chemicals to a thin metal sheet….”
There is more in the article.
OMG, amazing!
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I think that is the one that was at a garage sale 8 miles from my house
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Yeah, but if you’re the ebay seller who sold the photo, it’s like someone handing you the winning lottery ticket and you saying “Nah, I’d rather have ten bucks”
I STILL remember this from years ago , when I was just starting out, (long before you could find pricing info easily online….in fact, before there was an online) I sold a cardboard counter top store display, can’t remember just what the product was, but it had a famous baseball player as part of the graphics. I had paid a dollar or two at a little local antique shop. Took it to a flea market, and sat with it all day….no interest. End of the day, (a lousy sales day), guy sees it, asks how much, I give him a price, he gives me a song and dance about how high my price is, really, it’s worth maybe ten bucks, but he really likes it, so he’ll give me $15. I say OK. A few weeks later, I’m looking at one of the antiques trade papers, an article about one of the big antique shows….there’s a photo of my “rare” display counter, sold quickly for $300.00. Not 2 million, but man, that STILL hurts LOL
But it was a good lesson: research, research, research, but recognize that there will always be someone who knows more than you do—-you can’t win ’em all.
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Articles like this Frequently leave out critical details. The guy who found the “Billy the Kid” tin type at the thrift store spent about 5 years and a bunch of money getting it verified. Yes, in the end it’s worth it, but are you (or me) willing to invest all kinds of time and money trying to get an item verified that turns out to have little value.
PBS had a program in which a collector bought a painting for about $22,000. For me that would be a huge gamble, but evidently he had some wealth. Again after years of research it was established that the painting was a Devinci, that had been removed from a book. They actually located the book and matched it up.
Both these individuals were being followed (and assisted) by TV crews. When a TV crew shows up at an expert’s door and asks his assistance in verifying an artifact, the doors tend to get opened. many experts were consulted.
The “Billy the Kid” was estimated to be worth $5,000,000 and the guy with the Devinci had just turned down and offer of $80,000,000 before the show aired. Yes that’s 5 Million and 80 Million dollars.
These stories are fun to read about and yes, they keep us on the chase. In the end we create our own luck. By the way The Mega Millions lottery is over $375 million dollars for tonight.
Have you bought your ticket?
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Joe, you are 100% correct about making your own luck. Totally agreed.
An no, my husband always says that the lotto is for people that are bad at math. Although once we did go in with a group and spent 20.00 — and the ONLY reason we did it was not because we thought we would win, but we knew that if, in that one in a trillion chance, we did win, we would feel so horrible that it was worth the 20.00 just so we can have peace of mind.
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