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Amazingly valuable treasures bought for very little money

These pricey treasures were bought for peanuts
A marble bust used as a doorstop
A doorstop with a valuable secret
A Roman statue bought from a Goodwill store
The Georgian diamond and ruby ring
The signed Pablo Picasso lino-cut poster
The Floyd Landis custom-built bike
The Albrecht Dürer engraving
The Picasso plate
The rare Tibetan goddess statue
The Beilby wine glasses
The Velvet Underground demo record
The 18th-century Chinese bowl
The 17th-century Venetian painting
The Die Brücke catalogue
The Ilya Bolotowsky painting
The Jaeger-LeCoultre watch
The René Lalique Feuilles Fougères vase
The Russian brooch
The Vince Lombardi sweatshirt
The 17th-century Chinese cup
The Baba Bishan Singh painting
The lost Australian painting
An Augusta National Golf Club green jacket
The Breitling James Bond watch
The 17th-century Flemish painting
Princess Diana's Bahrain state dinner dress
The Anne Boleyn bird
The Alexander Calder necklace
The John Constable painting
Tiffany rose helmet lamp
The original 1823 copy of the US Declaration of Independence
Kleitsch oil landscape
The cracked teapot with huge historical value
The yard sale Chinese bowl
The James Bond underwater car
A 26-carat diamond ring
The lost 13th-century chess piece
The Martin Johnson Heade paintings
The Andy Warhol sketch
The 1,000-year-old Chinese bowl
The 'new' Billy the Kid photo
The Albrecht Dürer drawing
The Third Imperial Fabergé egg
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The Andy Warhol sketch

British tourist Andy Fields was on vacation in Las Vegas in 2010 when he hit a yard sale and bought five paintings for $5 (£4) from a man who claimed his aunt babysat the artist Andy Warhol when he was a child. Upon his return to the UK, Fields discovered a sketch hidden behind one of the paintings, which experts believe is an early sketch by Warhol of French-Canadian singer Rudy Vallée, worth $2 million (£1.6m).

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Alice Cattley

16 November 2023

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