\Somebody in Connecticut is deeply upset, I would venture to guess.
Posted on 03/17/2021 12:40:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A 6-inch Chinese porcelain bowl that was bought for $35 at a Connecticut yard sale was sold at auction Wednesday for a staggering $721,800, which includes a buyer’s premium.
It was expected to fetch between $300,000 and $500,000 at Sotheby’s on the Upper East Side. The hammer price, which does not include the buyer’s premium and overhead premium, was $580,000.
The name of the winning bidder in the Sotheby’s Auction of Important Chinese Art auction is private.
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Just dang! Wish I could find something like that!!
I’ve got something I picked up at $15, and i’d be willing to let it go for $150,000—however if you want to pay more, I’m game.
Ancient Chinese secret, huh?
I’ve got some Fiesta Ware, made in the USA. I wonder how much it would fetch.
Some dude was eating oatmeal out of that bowl one morning and the next think he knows that same bowl sells for three quarter of a million dollars.
All he has now is that $35.00.
That has to hurt.
That’s what I’m thinking...CRAP,I SOLD IT FOR 35.00!!!!!!!!!!!!
And to think, allI I want us my two dollars
‘bought at yard sale’
Code for ‘can’t reveal true source’.
I paid $15 for a 69 Mustang 428 R code ram air set up at a garage sale and sold it on ebay for $4300 when the prices were sky high a few years back.
The people were going into assisted living and it belonged to their son who took it off his car in the early 70’s and then he the car was wrecked.
My best score.
It was expected to fetch between $300,000 and $500,000 at Sotheby’s on the Upper East Side. The hammer price, which does not include the buyer’s premium and overhead premium, was $580,000.
Well the seller got a little over 1/2 a million and Soteby's got almost a 1/4 of a million at any rate. 8>)
I’ve got some Fiesta Ware, made in the USA.
Regular or extra radioactive?
The buyer at the sale suspected if might be valuable, and paid the asking price without comment. You’ve got to keep a poker face at a sale or an auction, and never reveal any knowledge you might have.
We have seven just like that. Had an eighth, but my wife dropped it.
The guys who buffed out the “Made in China” stamp on the bottom obviously did an outstanding job.
I eat my noodles out of one just like that (don’t I wish).
Yeah, you’d probably never forget about something like that. like ever.
Sounds like the plot of a Lovejoy episode: Smoke Your Nose or Kikomon Tiger.
I shopped for Fiesta Ware at a local department store. My son brought a Geiger counter. None of it was radioactive that day.
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