Family's old vase fetches $83 million. Check your old stuff?

I don't know how much my coffee table is worth. It's an antique. It's been around since way past i was born so i'm sure It's worth something. I was thinking about getting it appraised but hadn't gone through with it. Maybe when i have the time.

I wish I could have found something like that when I was younger. It's great that you have a greater possibility of getting a lot of money for an antique since it's now a worldwide market thanks in part to the Internet.

Of course I would like to find a treasure in my old stuff, but it just is not very likely. I am happy for whoever this happens to, though.

My husband and I have just been talking about this, how incredible!! It seems that the couple had to be taken out of the auction room in shock!! For anyone who watched the old British TV programme 'Only Fools and Horses' this reminded me of the last episode when Del Boy's watch went for millions!

Of course! Wouldn't everyone? I even look for antiques sometimes, hoping to find something valuable.

Oh my... she strikes gold in what is suppose to be an ordinary "old-aged" material. She was very lucky indeed in finding one item and even it is at its present state that the market value and appearance is still high. Really incredible. I do hope that I can be lucky as this lady was. We have some pieces of "old-aged" items stored and kept in our old ancestral house but I don't know who is taking care of it. I don't know if a valuable priced item as an antique is hidden somewhere there. But I do not bother to look around since I do seldom visit this house since I moved with my "own" family and was living in highly-dense urbanized city already. But oh boy... I do hope we find something like this and we can bring it an auction for a good high valued price so everyone in my family can be happy and share. But I think, this is somewhat next to impossible.

Woooww! I saw that vase on TV, a really beautiful one, but who has so much money that they can spend millions on a vase?? Maybe I find something among the clutter I have, before I get rid of it!!(not found any skeleton yet, by the way!!) I actually know of an auction site where anybody can get five free listings of the items they want to sell. They are now selling the worlds oldest Steinway piano, that is in perfect condition. So welcome to ask me if someone finds antiquities they want to sell!! And they can sell more modern things too, almost what they want!!

...Hi there, Well this is quite a great story. Makes you wonder if the sister even knew what the value of the vase was? A friend of a friend of mine was at a flea market once and took a liking to a ring that had some kind of foreign inscription in it. He bought it for five dollars or so. Put it away, later decided to get it appraised, it was a Louie the 16th or one of the Louie kings' ring worth quite a few millions of dollars. Sometimes you get lucky. Thanks for the atory. Take care.