I remember reading, a long time ago (a few years back), about someone in the UK that purchased a Chinesey “looking” piece of porcelain (a vase I think it t’was) at a house sale, “boot” sale or private sale, for less than a pound or so, and shortly afterwards, put his newly purchased vase in a local auction house in hopes of making a couple pound profit on his investment,
Well now, the auction house advertised his vase with “pictures” ….. and the day it came up to be “bid on”, …….. the bidding went “bananas”.
Two or three “experts” who saw the “pictures” recognized the vase as being a rare, rare piece of Chinese Export Porcelain, circa 1600, if I remember correctly.
Maybe Mat will remember that “find”.