Author: Moha

On the internet, people go crazy for the kooky inventors that spend hours in their garage working on “the next big thing.” YouTube channels featuring dads, moms, and anyone else fabricating their own DIY Frankenstein monsters earn thousands of views by the day. Rick Kalinowski never considered himself a kooky inventor… until he found himself unemployed and stuck at home. Determined not to have idle hands — and to make a few much-needed bucks —…

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When you’re standing at the altar with your soon-to-be spouse and hear the romantic words of “I do” tremble from your lips, you expect that oath to last forever. Love should never fade over time, or at least that’s everyone’s assumption on their wedding day. When Alexandra Tolstoy first met Russian billionaire Sergei Pugachev, the electricity between them could light up a city for weeks. But, as Alexandra floated through her lavish life thinking all…

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Despite being overly sentimental, few items for sale at flea markets are worth more than a few bucks. So when an unsuspecting scrap metal entrepreneur came across a golden bauble at a flea market, he was stunned. Surely he could re-sell the piece for a few thousand dollars. When he went to sell, however, he realized how little he understood about his little golden purchase. Tiny Golden Spectacle When the man—who now wishes to remain…

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Zach Norris was just your average guy. Living in Phoenix, Arizona, he enjoyed the simple things in life like spending time with his fiance, golfing at the many courses in the area, and, in his free time, collecting watches. However, he never took his hobby seriously; it was all in good fun… for a while. That all changed when, one day Zach purchased a watch that would change his life. Because while he bought it…

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No one loves historic relics like brothers Keith and Brian Collins. All you have to do is mention you might have something valuable — or even just historically significant — and you can bet they’ll go out of their way to check it out. The past has always been their passion. That’s why you can sometimes catch them at the thrift store, searching for items that may reveal something special about the past. They have…

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“Whoa, that’s a gorgeous ceramic bowl! That’ll fit perfectly in my kitchen,” you think to yourself as you peruse a yard sale your neighbor is holding. You purchase it for next to nothing, thinking it’s simply an inexpensive new addition to you home. Or, is it? When one New York family was sifting through all the no-longer-wanted items at a big garage sale, they bought several pieces for their kitchen, one being a small unassuming…

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There’s nothing like a nice watch to make you feel like a million bucks — even if its actual price tag was a few zeroes short of that mark. That’s why timepieces from luxury brands can cost a small fortune. Still, sometimes even the keenest-eyed appraisers can miss treasures right in front of them. You wouldn’t, for instance, expect a watch made famous by a classic ’60s James Bond film to go missing, but that’s…

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Who doesn’t love skipping through flea markets and second-hand shops? You might have to dig a little, but there are always a few diamonds in the rough. So when UK resident John Richard spotted a quirky little brown handbag at a second-hand shop, he wasn’t expecting it to be worth anything, he just liked its “distinctive” print. But there was something else about the bag he couldn’t stop thinking about… Neophyte Antique Hunter Antique hunter…

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Ah, the thrill of the thrift. There’s nothing like going to your local flea market to see what kind of gold they’re hiding. Many times these “treasures” are chipped Santa figurines or a half-used tube of lotion (this has happened), but you never know what’s hiding in the shelves — or what’s inside of a $7 box at a flea market. In Virginia, Marcia “Martha” Fuqua was just happy to find an innocuous-looking box that…

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Antiques Roadshow has allowed us to fantasize about discovering unlikely treasure for over 40 years. Every once in a while, an episode of the fairly buttoned-up television program is sprinkled with that magic feeling that comes from discovering something truly one of a kind. One episode proved to be unlike any other when the show’s most tenured appraiser was moved to tears. Not Just Another Day At Work Lark Mason showed up to film another episode…

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