IN AMERICA IN 1989, a man at a Pennsylvania flea market bought a painting — ugly art, pretty frame — for $4. Once home, he removed the picture… and discovered under it one of the 24 original copies of the Declaration of Independence.
It later sold at a Sotheby’s auction for $2.4 million — proving yet again that one man’s trash really is another’s treasure.
Happily, we now have myriad ways — both online and off — to sort through all the world’s best “junk” and find jewels. Determined to score goodies on the cheap, I went exploring the world of extreme bargain hunting.
This is my map to hidden treasure.
Score with online bargains
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