AN Orford man has spoken of his disbelief after selling rare buttons for more than £61,000. Gary Quittenton-Shaw found the buttons in a ‘speculative lot’ at a local auction house in Derby where he ...
Gary Quittenton-Shaw from Rowsley bought a box of buttons for £40 and went on to sell two of them for £61,000. They were ...
Gary Quittenton-Shaw asked ChatGPT what his odds were of finding the two buttons at auction - it was 3.5 million to one ...
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Buttons bought for £40 sell for £61k at auction
A bargain hunter who paid £40 for two antique buttons was stunned to discover they were extremely rare and sold them for ...
Running from Wednesday through April 20, the “Into Eternity” exhibition showcases Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, Spanish ...
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Buttons bought for £40 by Derbyshire bargain hunter sell for £61,000 at auction
A Derbyshire bargain hunter who paid £40 for two antique buttons was stunned to discover they were extremely rare and sold them for £61,000.
The buttons were made by Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti for Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli in the 1930s.
The phrase "someone's trash is someone's treasure" came true for one man who landed £48,000 after he stumbled upon a pair of extremely rare buttons which cost him just £40.
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Sotheby’s high-stakes auction turned into a jaw-dropping spectacle Tuesday night when a $70 million Alberto Giacometti bronze bust failed to sell, leaving bidders and art insiders gobsmacked. The ...
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