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Actor Rob Gough paid $5.2 million for a piece of cardboard in January 2021. Well, that’s one way to put it. Another way is to say that he bought a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle rookie card in mint condition with a PSA 9 rating—1 of 6 known to be in existence. "I always dreamt of owning a 1952 Topps Mickey…

What’s a pair of sneakers worth? In April of 2021, “Auction company Sotheby's announced on Monday that Kanye West's Nike Air Yeezy 1 Prototype shoes have sold for a record-breaking $1.8 million through a private sale to sneaker investing platform RARES.” https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2021/04/26/Kanye-West-Nike-Air-Yeezy-auction-Sothebys/1851619448461/…

An anonymous man paid $35.00 for a beautiful bowl at a garage sale near New Haven, Connecticut in 2020 and sold it for over $700,000.00 at a Sotheby’s auction. The rare, 15th-century Ming dynasty artifact was expected to fetch “between $300,000.00 and $500,000.00,” but fared much better. What a shame…

When Howard Kirby noticed a firm area in the thrift store couch he bought for his man cave he tried to discover and fix the problem. The “problem” turned out to be $43,170 in cash. Even though an attorney said he could legally keep the money, Kirby reached out to the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Owosso,…

A 90-year-old Frenchwoman was preparing to move. She had an auctioneer come to value her furniture to dispose of it at auction. Hanging in the kitchen was a tempera panel which the woman believed was an old Russian icon that she had for decades. Her plan was to throw it away. The auctioneer thought it…

An old painting hanging in the kitchen of an elderly French woman made her a multimillionaire. The women did not think the painting was worth much, but when an auctioneer saw it, he suggested she bring it to experts for an evaluation. The painting turned out to be a rare masterpiece from 13th-century…

Is it possible to be too rich? When the Good’s daughter left for college, her parents inherited her cats. Their San Jose, Calif., apartment complex doesn’t allow animals. Rather than abandon the felines, the Goods found a studio apartment and hired the landlord to tend to the animals. The studio costs…

Acting on a tip, the FBI recovered a pair of ruby red slippers Judy Garland wore in the movie The Wizard of Oz. Thieves took them from a Minnesota museum thirteen years ago. They were insured for $1,000,000 but experts told the BBC they were probably worth twice that much. How could a pair of shoes be…

We lose track of the significant when we obsess in the unimportant stuff. Police in Bothell, Washington have had to request that residents stop dialing 911 to report that they cannot log on to Facebook. “We will move mountains to help those in our community,” said a police spokesman. “However, we can’t…

A bag containing traces of moon dust collected on the first manned moon mission in 1969 recently sold for $1.8 at auction. Due to a clerical error, the bag sold on an online auction in 2015. Though NASA officials went to court to get the artifact back, the court decided that while it should not have…

I am sure you have heard the saying, “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure,” but what if I told you that sperm whale vomit can be worth millions of dollars, would you believe me? Three men in the small town of Oman, in the Arabian Peninsula, found a large, waxy substance floating near their fishing…