10 Unbelievable Garage Sale Finds
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A U.K. man picked up the paintings at a Las Vegas garage sale in 2010. Value: $2 million
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A U.K. man picked up the paintings at a Las Vegas garage sale in 2010. Only when he reframed one a few years later did he find a sketch inside thought to be made by Andy Warhol – at age 10.
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A California man purchased a stock certificate for a company called Palmer Oil Co., which turned out to be a predecessor company to Coca-Cola.
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Gamer Rob Walters picked up a box of Nintendo games a Value: $50,000
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Gamer Rob Walters picked up a box of Nintendo games at a garage sale, which were later valued at $50,000. One of the games in that box sold in 2009 for more than $20,000. eBay/Gawker
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Record Collector Warren Hill picked up the a Velvet Underground record in 2002 at a New Yokr City garage sale. The album, turned out to be an acetate copy of the unreleased first album for the Velvet Underground. He sold it on eBay for $155,00.
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A California woman last month sold a denim jacket at a yard sale, forgetting she had tucked an Value: $18,000
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A California woman last month sold a denim jacket at a yard sale, forgetting she had tucked an $18,000 pair of earrings inside a pocket of it for safe keeping. She’s holding out hope, after similar accidental garage sale deal in California ended with the return of a woman’s $23,000 wedding ring. CBS LA
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A 13-year old boy bought a Polaroid camera at a yard sale last yea Value: Priceless
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A 13-year old boy bought a Polaroid camera at a yard sale last year. Once home, he removed the cartridge and found a photo of his uncle, who had died in a car accident 23 years earlier.
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