1. Student Buys Flea-market Sofa, Finds Venetian Painting Inside
Location: Germany’s Berlin
Year Found: 2018 Estimated Value: $27,630*
Students frequently visit thrift stores in search of affordable furniture. In a Berlin, Germany, business, a fortunate student paid merely $215 for a pull-out couch. At home, she unfolded the couch to see a painting that was probably worth a hundred times that.
Student Discovers Painting (not the real couch) in Couch Adobe.com/stock/kasarp
The 10″ by 15″ picture was identified as “Preparation to Escape to Egypt” when it was certified. It was painted between 1605 and 1620 by an unidentified artist who collaborated with the renowned Venetian painter Carlo Saraceni. It was astounding how the artwork survived in such fine shape, and it went on to fetch about $28,000 at auction in Hamburg.
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