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The Invergordon Common Good Fund owns the bust, which was purchased in 1930 for about $6.35. Now, the historical bust could sell for $3.1 million.
The bust, made by French sculptor Edmé Bouchardon in 1728, was found propping open a shed door in 1998 Marble Sculpture Bought for $6 and Used as Doorstop Could Make over $3M at Auction Skip to ...
A sculpture bought for just £5 ($6) and used as a doorstop could sell for more than £2.5 million ($3.2 million) after a Scottish court gave the green light for its sale.
He told John Reed to name his price. Reed, not understanding the true value of gold, asked for what he thought was the hefty price of $3.50, or a week's worth of wages. The large nugget's true value was around $3,600. About 1803, John Reed organized a small gold mining operation. Soon afterward a slave named Peter found a 28-pound nugget. [2]
Removing rocks and other debris in a very large urban privy (c. 1855). Privy digging is the process of locating and investigating the contents of defunct outhouse vaults. The purpose of privy digging is the salvage of antique bottles and everyday household artifacts from the past.
The rock was brought to football coach Frank Howard in the early 1960s as a gift from Samuel C. Jones. Jones found the rock while driving through Death Valley, California and gave it to Howard as a reference to "Death Valley," the name used to refer to Memorial Stadium. [2] The coach used the rock as a doorstop until 1966.
Sculptor Edmé Bouchardon made the marble bust almost 300 years ago.
156 cm (5 ft 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) [1 Hominin fossil found in Dordogne, France " Magdalenian Girl " or " Magdalenian Woman " ( French : Femme magdalénienne ) [ 2 ] [ 3 ] is the common name for a human skeleton , dated to the boundary between the Upper Paleolithic and the early Mesolithic , ca. 15,000 to 13,000 years old, in the Magdalenian period.