Kicker - A garage sale ​​renaissance

NICK EICHER, HOST: Everybody loves a good yard sale. Sometimes you can find a real bargain!

A bookstore owner in Boston knows about that first hand. He thought he had come across a piece of rare art, so he sought out a well-known art collector and asked him to have a look at a drawing that his friend picked up at a local yard sale for $30.

He suspected it might be an original by a German Renaissance artist by the name of Albrecht Dürer.

The art expert was skeptical at first, but intrigued enough to put in quite a bit of effort to verify its authenticity.

And now three years later, it does indeed appear to be the real deal.

The drawing is thought to date back to the year 1503.

Estimated value: $10 million dollars and maybe five times that!

Regardless, what we can be sure of is this, it’s worth a lot more than the $30 sale price.

How’s that for a yard sale find?!

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