We were SITTING ON A GOLD MINE!
It’s the thing dreams are made of – finding out something you own is worth a fortune. But it happens more often than you’d think, and not just on Antiques Roadshow. In France, a woman discovered the painting she had on a wall was actually a 13th-century masterpiece by the artist Cimabue, and was expected to sell at auction for around £5.3 million. If that’s not enough to get you rooting around the house for hidden treasures, these stories might be.
‘I bought the ring at a car boot sale 33 years ago’
DEBRA GODDARD, 56, LIVES IN TWICKENHAM, LONDON.
A love of car boot sales, or rather finding a bargain, is something my mum June and I have always had in common. One morning, in 1986, as we wandered around the stalls, pushing my three-year-old son Jason in his pram, I spotted a wooden box full of costume jewellery. There were a couple of bangles I
