You hear about these sorts of things happening. Just never to you.
A person sees a painting at a garage sale, decides to buy it for $5 only to later discover it was painted by someone incredibly famous and worth more than they could have possibly imagined.
Same thing here — only with an egg. A scrap metal dealer in the Midwest stumbled upon an incredibly rare Faberge egg at a sale, the Daily Telegraph reports. The unidentified man, sensing the golden egg was worth considerably more than the $13,000 being asked, plunked down the cash.
It isn’t often wise to pay $13,000 for an egg, but in this case, the man’s risk was well rewarded. Turns out the piece of art is worth a whopping $33.3 million, according to the Daily Telegraph. Why? The egg was once owned by Russia’s Tsar Alexander III and was seized during the Russian Revolution. It is one of only a few original Faberge eggs still known to exist.
Kieran McCarthy, the Faberge expert who verified the man’s discovery, compared the find to “Indiana Jones finding the Lost Ark,” according to the Daily Mail.
After the man bought the treasure, he did some online research and found a 2011 article seeking the whereabouts of the exact egg in his possession.
He sought out an expert opinion and — voila — instant retirement fund, and then some.
The last time the egg had been seen in public was in March 1902, according to Press Association’s report.
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