Michigan collector paid $30 for painting; it later sold for record $1.35 million
At a recent estate sale, a man bought a Gertrude Abercrombie painting for only $30. Upon confirming its authenticity at an exhibition, he opted to auction the piece. Titled Alderman Merriam's Shells, the painting was anticipated to sell between $150,000 and $250,000. Remarkably, it sold for a staggering $1,060,000 at Freeman's auction, setting a new high for the artist and highlighting the…
In 2016, a UK collector purchased a broken, lidless teapot at an auction for £15. Little did they know that the piece would later be identified as one of the rarest early American porcelain teapots. The teapot was eventually sold for £575,000 after it was discovered to be a piece made by John Bartlam, a Staffordshire potter who established a pottery business in South Carolina in the 1760s.
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