The Value of Things

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I have found this to be true for me lately, but not in such a "material" way.

As Corey's pal, Robert Zimmerman sings, "Keep your eyes wide, the chance won't come again."

We are surrounded by treasures, take time to look around and breathe in all that you see.

 

From the Huff Post:

A blue and white vase that was for years used as a doorstop by a family in Birmingham, central England, turned out to be a rare 18th century Chinese artifact — which sold at auction on Friday for an eye-popping £650,000 (around $860,000).

record setting door stop

“It is a quite spell bounding vase,” said Charles Hanson, managing director of  Hansons, via a press statement before the auction, adding it was “possiblymanufactured by the Imperial kilns for the Emperor’s Summer Palace.”

The auctioneers had estimated the vase would fetch £300,000 to £500,000 (around $400,000 to $660,000).

But the sale price ended up topping those predictions after the auction house received “significant interest” from across China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, Hanson told the BBC. The buyer’s identity has not been revealed.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust

Comments

Fred Klein

Lots of valuable things are hiding in plain sight

Submitted by VikramRajan on Tue, 07/05/2016 - 22:58

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Vik Rajan

love Antiques Roadshow... and this metaphor
Kelly Welles

Hats off to the hidden assets all around us, the most valuable of all, in my view, is the ability to see every day with the enthusiasm of a child (Aristotle) and the ability to think
outside the box. Thanks Cayce!
Corey Bearak

Amazing actually that it remained intact and undamaged through the years.
P.S. I do have a Robert Zimmerman friend but I'll cede the reference you made to Fred since the one you mentioned was a Wilbury. I prefer the latter as songwriter and much prefer other singing his tunes with only two exceptions (probably because I never heard a cover version of one tune (Subterranean Homesick Blues) and I do not care for Johnny Winter's cover of the other (Mostly Go Your Way I'll Go Mine).

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