Banner finds? Garage sale/ estate sale.

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I like finding great stuff at sales but as for me I won't even display bought items with my finds .its treasure hunting not treasure buying and he with the most money doesn't necessarily win
 

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Call it what you want to I guess, but when I hit the thrift stores and sales, I am treasure hunting, and it does not always cost a lot to hit it big, I remember reading some time back about a lady that found a painting for like 30 bucks at a thrift store, which was later sold for a million plus.
Not even 2 months ago me and my wife found 48 pieces of sterling silver flatware at a salvation army for a buck a piece, the next day I sold it to a refiner for 926 bucks, that's treasure found baby! though in hindsight I now wish I had kept it.

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I like finding great stuff at sales but as for me I won't even display bought items with my finds .its treasure hunting not treasure buying and he with the most money doesn't necessarily win
I have been hitting a lot of sales lately and Its definitely the knowledge that's key. For example, I get the same rush finding an HP calculator at a sale for $3 and flipping it for $90, the same rush I get finding a Large cent or a silver coin metal detecting.
 

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I like turning over finds getting steals at sales and thrift stores I guess what I'm trying to saying is if I dig a seated coin it means more than buying it on eBay even if it is a great deal.
 

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I was just wondering if a garage sale find ever made the banner. Other than MD finds I have seen bottles and Indian artifacts. If not, does anyone think a garage sale/ estate sale find will ever be up top?

If you found $100 of Silver for $2.00 probably not, find a rare item is a different story.

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I don't understand your post please explain briefly.

How is it not self explanitory? (I) think (personal opinion) most (the majority of) banner (worthy of being placed in a place of honor) finds (stuff you find) are dug (excavated from under the earth) artifacts (relics of the past).

is that clear enough?
 

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How is it not self explanitory? (I) think (personal opinion) most (the majority of) banner (worthy of being placed in a place of honor) finds (stuff you find) are dug (excavated from under the earth) artifacts (relics of the past). is that clear enough?
i believe because of the absents of an I and the ? Mark at the end made it a little confusing
 

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Hmmm! I think, if someone found a Tiffany lamp at a curbside, that it would merit a banner find. Same would go for a million-dollar painting found in a dumpster. We work hard, too - and it does take persistence and fortitude to hop into a dumpster, or brave the cold picking through garbage.
 

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There was a discussion of this on an earlier thread, if you can find it, it may explain more.
 

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Hmmm! I think, if someone found a Tiffany lamp at a curbside, that it would merit a banner find. Same would go for a million-dollar painting found in a dumpster. We work hard, too - and it does take persistence and fortitude to hop into a dumpster, or brave the cold picking through garbage.
Not quite a million but I was at an estate auction in NH a couple years ago and during the auction the auctioneer held up an oil painting that had a large hole in the middle of it. Softball size but it was torn in such a way that the fabric wasn't missing. Unsigned. He explained that the people who had consigned the estate had set that painting out to the street with the trash and he rescued it so it was his personal property and would be sold with no reserve. Evidently at least 2 people know who painted it or had a pretty good idea that it was valuable even badly damaged because it went for $7000. This is a small town weekly auction and pretty near everyone was in shock when the hammer finally came down.
 

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NHBandit that's how it goes good bad or valuable as they say there is a a-- for every seat just have to match them. There are a lot of fines out there I saw a painting they had to cut a hole in the house to get it out that sold at Christ'y for over a million and where you came from all those old cars in the barn along with the gold that was all hushed up very quickly
 

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I have a feeling that soon garage sale finds and the like WILL be allowed on the banner and that will be the last time I visit this site.

I have been around a while and have seen a lot of changes to this site. Some good, some bad.

I like coming here as there is a great backlog of useful information. But if my hunch is right, people will whine enough and it will be done.
 

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