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Originally Posted by Gina
This reminds me of an article I read in newspaper last week about a woman who found a painting in a trash in NYC a few years ago , and found out that it was stolen and was an expensive painting from a Mexican artist. A man brought it for his wife as a present many years ago and it was stolen. She returned the painting and is being auction off in at Sotheby's auction house for one million dollars.. She will be getting a finders fee of 15,000 and I believe they say Sothebys is giving her a reward also..
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Wow Gina, that was a great article! It would be really exciting to find out that a piece of "trash" was actually a long lost $1 million treasure!
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10-28-2007, 10:14 AM
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