Wednesday, November 11, 2009

LOOK CAREFULLY AT ANTIQUES YOU BOUGHT LONG AGO

An Arizona family owned a half-inch jeweled miniature portrait one member of the family purchased in 1951. It appeared valuable because of its jewels and the quality of the painting, so last summer the family had it appraised. It turned out to be an 18th-century portrait of Russian Czar Peter the Great. It sold at Sotheby's for $1.3 million.

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