Old Vase Found In Pinner Semi Is Worth Over £50m.
Hi,
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You remember my last post telling you to look in your attic.
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Well, it has happened again.
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Another amazing amount of money for something found lying around in someone’s house.
Just a 16″ vase with a couple of fish on it, which was kept for many years on top of a shaky bookcase.
So what, it was only worth a few quid, wasn’t it!
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Actually the correct answer would be ‘No’.
When the owner died his semi was being cleared out and the contents valued as £8oo for probate purposes.
The deceased man’s sister had inherited and was clearing the estate up.
She had found a flyer from Bainbridges Auctions that had been put through her door, so she rang them up.
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When an expert eventually spotted the vase, he was amazed to see such a thing, as it was a true masterpiece made for the Emperor and bearing the Imperial Seal.
It had somehow travelled from a Royal Palace in Beijing, via an uncle who had travelled in the Far East, to end up totally unappreciated on top of a bookcase in Pinner, Middlesex, just gathering dust.
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It only went to auction this week and sold for just over £50m didn’t it!
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The little vase turned out to be a 1740 Qianlong Dynasty Treasure.
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Video Of The Sale.
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Howzat!!!!!!
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