My favorite story was the woman who brought a small table to Antiques Road Show. She had bought it years before at a yard sale for I think $25. It was just the size she was looking for to go in the house she had just moved into.
The guys on Road Show guys were beside themselves when they saw it. It turns out that it was hand crafted and made before the Revolutionary War.
She eventually sold it at auction for somewhere in excess of $400,000.
Love it.
I love to hear stories like that. Antiques Road show is fun to watch.
I have two favorites from ARS. One was a guy that bought a house and when he was cleaning out the basement there some some kind of metal thing stuck in the rafters. It turned out to be some kind of battle helmet 500+ years old. The other was a guy who bought a cheap small painting of the Titanic and tucked in the back was an actual lunch menu from the fateful voyage.
My favorite also. The Keno twins were the appraisers, and a subsequent episode showed the actual Sotheby’s auction. I guess I liked it so much because she was such a sweetheart.