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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ikandiggit, post: 1320239, member: 16269&quot;]I worked at a small museum for a couple of years and I could see something like this happening. We had a storage room that I bet hadn&#039;t been accessed in 30 or more years. Being a born scavenger/rummager, I managed to locate the key for it. The curator who had been there for 15 years had never thought of thought of looking in the room thinking it was just an old closet. I opened the door and found the room was full of antiques. After doing some research, I discovered all these items had been donated but declared not appropriate for the museum. The curator (being an administrator and paper pusher) wanted to dispose of these items by giving them to other museums. We were cash-strapped so I suggested auctioning the items off at a collectibles/antiques auction. She figured we would made a few hundreds dollars at most. As it turned out, one of the &quot;found&quot; items, a decanter set, went for $3,500. The total of the items sold was just under $15,000. A far cry from the curator&#039;s estimate of a few hundred dollars.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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