8. A Chair Containing Diamonds
Where: Scotland
Year Found: Unknown;
Estimated Value: $6,485*
Who knew that a dusty chair might hold ancient, vintage diamonds? A couple in Scotland experienced a similar circumstance after good fortune smiled upon them. At an auction, Angela and Angus Milner-Brown paid just $6.50 (£5) for an apparently ordinary chair, and they assumed that was the end of it.
A Chair Filled With Diamonds ©IMG Stock Studio/Shutterstock
When they disassembled the chair to discard it, barely ten years or so later, they discovered antique diamond jewelry concealed therein that was valued at $6,485 (£5,000). The couple had no idea that they were essentially “sitting on a fortune”!