He found a $30 Million jewel in a flea market
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- čas přidán 9. 02. 2023
- This American man found a $30 million Imperial Fabergé egg while searching for scrap metal in a flea market.
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$14,000 dollars at a flea market? Who has that much money at a flea market
Shit don't add up chief
When he bought it it was probably unconfirmed gold too
You might be surprised. The old man sitting on a rickety old lawn chair with an umbrella taped to it might have ten million dollars of farm equipment at home.
An old man in sheep's clothing
And for an egg. Sounds like bs
I bought a painting at the Goodwill for $25 and found out it was worth $5
There was dope art behind goodwill bout to rain so I took them
Still got em today
I bought a painting and took it to a shop that sells paintings. Made an agreement to split the profit with the owner and made 25 times what I paid
Well, your first mistake was going to Goodwill. Despite the name and the image they've worked so hard to make over the last however many years they've been operating, they consistently fail to meet the requirements to actually be a 503c charitable organization. The issue is, the fine they pay on a yearly basis is only a small fraction of their profits and in no way incentivizes them to change their behavior.
Good will takes items for free from rich people are sells them to the poor for a profit, you would think a charity would be giving stuff away... ceo makes bank as well
Negative profit
a mere $14k at a flea market is a wild statement
Nope I have seen people selling expensive things at fleet markets. They are just looking for the right customer or it's a talking point. My dad bought an old working hand pump for $8,000 it was a great deal.
*I have 1 of the 7 missing eggs but don’t know where to go to sell it, someone help!!!*
@@strongestnattyever-videos2247you’ll make profit but in negative
@@strongestnattyever-videos2247just sell it to me for 20 bucks
Probably just sent his revtag
Everyone’s local flea market has that classic 10,000 dollar plus stand. We all know this, come on guys.
Nah lol we do not. Idk where you're from but it ain't like that here
@@simplyhappy420 someone completely missed the joke.
It's right next to the 50cent- bin.
You’d be surprised at what all can be bought at some flea markets. They aren’t exclusively dime stores…lol.
A LOT of those booths are being used as the persons legitimate store. It’s significantly less expensive than trying to lease a building. Traffic at flea markets can be very high. This allows sellers to maintain a low overhead, leaving more profit overall. Your flea market booth can carry expensive items or cheap dime store type products. What and how you want to sell it is your business.
Just the other day I went down to the thrift shop and spend $180,000.
I've spent 190,000 one time
That's a classic
I spent over 900,000 once.
Did you make $30 million
The man didn’t spend usd 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"a mere $14,000" mannn, I wanna be able to call $14k "mere" one day.
Maybe you should quit making worthless comments on CZcams and get out there and get a job you bum. 14k is nothing. 😂😂😂
Money isnt real. You can put mere in front of any amount and its the same. The real value is within, brother.
@@goofygooferson7834 well tell me how to channel my inner money and make it external money, cause right now it ain't within, it's without.
@@V4p3rcl0ud the answers you seek, you already know. All you do is have to listen
@@goofygooferson7834 ah yes, I'll just use the force, why didn't I think of that.
"A mere $14000" Had to raid the pocket change out of the cupholder.
I had a friend, antique collector, who bought a Dutch painting at a yard sale for $5. He sold it to another collector for $1700. THAT collector invested $15,000 and had it restored. HE sold it for $120,000! My friend was not upset as he explained to me that in his business knowledge was everything. He knew more than the yard sale guy, the other collector knew more than he did.
I’m Dutch and can paint. When do I start?
@@borates youll have to die after painting maybe 10-30 paintings. The value increases after death because then you can't create anymore paintings lol. I guess you could try to fake your death or pretend to be your twin or sibling to sell them? 🤷♀️ You'll probably be caught though and end up in prison. So... sorry. Van Gogh could never sell his paintings while alive and even begged his landlord to take a painting in place of rent for a month and the landlord declined...
Ooo, if you die tragically and young, you could very well start selling your paintings for 100s of thousands and eventually in the millions one day. Auction houses are the best.... And you'll need to have your own style and be actually talented...
Unless you go into avant garde abstract where a canvas painted in red with a line of blue at the top will sell for millions. Wait... 🤔😧🤑
Ignore my first suggestion, just go into avant garde abstract and paint colors. Then get really good at bullshitting people. Youll need to do interviews and whenever an art critic or journalist walks up to you at an exhibit to ask, "What is the meaning behind this painting?"
You'll need to respond with something like, "the red filling the canvas represents the anguish i feel in my soul. It's my constant internal fight for hapiness. The blue line at the top is a satire of "feeling blue" and represents the calm that i so rarely get in my mind. The blue isn't happiness, but it's being comfortable with myself. The blue being in a thin line represents how difficult it is to follow that path."
You can always go with the cliché of "Every interpretation is correct. Whatever you felt and interpreted from my art is correct." Lol
your friend and his buyer got the right circle to sell it. he knows about the market that want it while the seller that sell it for 5$ have now market and knowledge about it
Yes. Exactly! Your friend has his expertise in different kind of antiques and interests.
Thats the game to be a Collector. You have extended knowledge at some things and less in others.
It goes both ways. Nice story. Thanks for sharing 😊
Restoration always is an expensive gamble. You never know what you're going to unearth until the work is finished.
So he’s looking for scrap metal at a flea market but has $14,000 to spend on a random gold egg? Okay.
Also, he paid 14,000 to possibly meltdown for gold in the gold weigh like 3 ounces lol
@QBZ OG take risks for rewards my friend.
Probably Ruples. That's less than $200 US
He was probably looking for old jewelry and old watches that people didn’t know where valuable so he could melt down the gold saw how much gold was in the egg and decided it was worth it. It’s not that crazy. The whole point of flea markets, you never know what you’re going to find.
Somethings not adding up here 😂 they must not realize how many old bbq’s and washing machines they’d have to pull for that kind of money
I wish I had a "mere" $14,000 dollars.
So do I 😂😂🎉
Me too.
The utter insanity of saying "a mere $14,000" gets me hard.
@@RyanDesjarlais 😆
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I bought a wooden storage box at a flea market once. Got it for 36 bucks and later found out they were going for 8 dollars at the local farm store. ..
😂 dumbazsz
It’s hurtful for what happened to this family.
this kind of thing is what happens when democrats/communists are allowed to take over a country
Everybody goes to the flea market with 20K looking for that sale of thousands of dollars really worth millions.
As a shopper at Flea Markets I agree with you sir! 😁
that's how you know this story is bs. it probably happened but I can guarantee it wasn't in a flea market.
Also this story is from before the 2000’s and, right around then 14k was the price of a car
Just to melt it down, no less
yep if you don't bring the bag with you there's no point buying cause you won't make profit so u gotta go big
Once I purchased an authentic DaVinci painting at the local 7-11 when I went to buy a roll of bathroom tissue.
Luckily I had 10.5 million dollars cash USD in my wallet.
😄😂
@@johneneojowilliams5081
It may seem comical to you buddy. However carrying that much cash in my wallet resulted in a serious back injury when I sat down on the bus.
@@Cleatus546I had to get a silver hip replacement from carrying $69Mil exactly in gold on me to Walmart every day, I feel your pain brother😥
Oh good one but not usd
IT'S CALLED TOILET PAPER
“He bought the item at a mere $14000”
My mom had a rather successful jewelry business at a swap meet in Tucson in the 80's. I was in my teens at the time and was big into coins. I had a little section with coins for sale. One day this gentleman from China started a conversation with me and had some Chinese cash coins he wanted to sell. He told me he was at another flee market and one stand had a box of Chinese cash coins marked .25 cents each. Him knowing Chinese (duh) dug threw the box and picked out ones that were more valuable. He purchased them looking to sell them for a few more dollars. I was curious about the certain coins he had with him for sale. Each coin he had written the dynasty and date and emporer. I decided to purchase the coins from him for 30.00 bucks. I took the coins to a professor i knew at the UofA and found out tge Chinese gentleman was 100% telling the truth about the coins history. After researching more two of the coins valued at $350.00 the remaining 18 coins averaged 50-80 bucks each. Im 54 now and still have those coins.
How much are they worth now? Over 100k?
I often go to flea markets with 20-30k looking for scrap metal to resell. Because that makes sense.
its a mere 14k
😂
😅😂😂 yesss, it was a good one 👏🏻
😂😂
Sounds like it wasn’t a flea market. But a scrap metal yard.
Obviously the seller knew that it was solid gold. The fact is anybody who has any clue about art or history or metals and gems should know about the Faberge eggs. And they should be recognizable at first glance! How would he pick that up and buy it and not knowing it was a Faberge egg? So there's seven more of them out there!? Thanks for the heads up.😊
Rick: Best I can do is $50
I have a dozen eggs in my refrigerator that cost a fortune also
You must be living in CA like most of us lol
LOL 😂 Me too.
Bird flu
😂😂😂
No lie😂😂😂
Ain’t no way in hell they spent 14k and were tryna scrap for gold 😭 it’s scrap for a reason
No body scraping has 14k, they would not be scraping if they did.
@@user-rn3rn6nl3h thats not true lol
@@1DS9 scrapers are not smart
@north over typically they are not, tho some people do it on the side, and make bank thru other professions
@@user-rn3rn6nl3h You realize that jewelers and pawn shops buy scrap gold , then resell the scrap gold for use in new jewelry? This guy isn't dumpster diving. He's buying gold watches.
I love the Faberge eggs. They are amazing in their detail and special features, and they are beautiful.
So for people confused, he did actually pay $14k USD for it. He was not looking for scrap at a flea market though, he was looking for high value items to flip at an antiques market, so having that kind of money is perfectly reasonable. The egg has a lot of gold, and contains a Vacheron Constantin watch inside (one of the major historical Swiss watchmakers), so even not knowing what it was $14k is a very reasonable price to pay.
Legitimate dealers don't sell a high value piece in a cash and carry boot sale
@@vmcurry1, you would be surprised what's for sale at boot or flea markets.
Was in business for 30yrs and you build contacts and friendships with different dealers.
Some of my best finds and hidden jewels were from boot/flea market seller's.
There are so many things wrong with your comment. I can't be bothered to debunk it all. You can have it.
@@danielj7013
Right.
Have you seen the price of eggs at the supermarket lately?
I recommend getting chickens 🐔
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It was a watch. A gold watch, housed in a golden egg. Owner knew it was good which is why it had a $13,302 price tag. Buyer bought it, held into it for sometime until he discovered it was a missing Faberge egg.
You will never find anything 0ver $100 at a flea market. If the seller knew it was worth $10,000 he would have sold it at an antic dealer
In the UK flea markets are more like outdoor antique shops, you aren’t getting anything for less than £50/£100 and there’s plenty of stuff that goes into thousands
@@chuckkiephan6880 clearly you’ve never been to one before
@@chuckkiephan6880 my daughter and I go to the huge flea market in our area sometimes when we’re bored and they sell real gold, diamonds, $4k dogs, vehicles, antiques sometimes up too $10k, etc..
@@chuckkiephan6880 what the heck is an antic dealer? 🤣
The True "Egg Hunt".
I went to flea market and met my wife, she later divorced me and made a fortune taking me to court.
😂😂😂😂😂
A MERE 14,000 DOLLAR?????
Considering its overall value it is pretty small.
Personally, I never go to a flea market with less than 25,000 dollars cash...Hey, you never know....
@@sambarris5615 Lmao the max amount I bring to flea markets is like $250 lol
That guy sounds like my great-uncle. He would spend half a day putting a new hook on an old chain just to sell the chain for a dollar fifty at a garage sale. He died a multi-millionaire. And no, I didn't see a penny of it
My uncle fits this exact description as well
At this point, I believe that at least a half of those eggs are not missing, but being hidden for some reason. The rest are more likely lost buried or something.
Those eggs are works of art, craftsmanship. Lucky find.🌹❤️🇺🇸
Oh man and I thought I was lucky when I found one at a yard sale for a mere 50k and a reach around !!!
Yeah, I'm calling BS on this
As long as he gives it back and doesn’t hand it off to the British museum then it’s fine 😂
Thats what an easter egg should be.
Looking for Scrap Metal but spends $14,000 at a flea market
... sounds legit bro
I was looking for coins on the street to buy some food, I saw this man selling a diamond for 100k so I bought the diamond.
@@stimulatemyexistence5669 ... pardon me for using an aphorism.
" All that glitters is not gold "
Looking for scrap gold
@@ericschulze5641I don't know about you, but $ 14,000 doesn't sound like " scrap " to me
LOL
@Nicholas Xavier he probably goes every week, and buys a few hundred to a few thousand from various dealers, most likely he knew what he found and hit the ATM before making an offer, also the dealer obviously knew he had something quite valuable just didn't know how valuable, cmon use your head
Lol $14,000 items aren't at flea marts
Really? Jave you been to EVERY one in the world? Didn't think so stfu.
You goto some weak flea markets then
Uneducated, my wife and I go regularly and there are plenty of items that go for $10,000+ easily.
@@fattymatty823You aren’t in the U.S. then are you
Ripples
This really did happen. The guy that bought it was a precious metals dealer, bought the piece for scrap and did some research. Yes, he hit the bigtime!
So how much did he sell it???
I dated a half Jewish girl once whose wholly-Jewish mother loved finding Scottish jewelry from the early 1900s, and she would cruise the flea markets all the time looking for pieces. Once, she found a piece she knew for sure was worth at least $150 in a junk bin for like 15 bucks. True to her heritage, despite knowing she was going to make 10 times the asking price, she STILL beat him down to $8.00. No stereotypes…… 😅
Those eggs are beautiful 😍❤️
Craftsmanship is on another level.
You only need look at buildings from 150+ years ago v todays rubbish that goes up to see how much crafts been lost to cheap & quick projects.
Not this claptrap again.
when life gives you an egg, become a millionaire
Hidden Achivement: find one of the 46 hidden easter eggs
Legends says if you've collected all the Seven Eggs, a Mystical Dragon will appear and can make one Perfect Wish once you've summoned it! But, after you've make your wish, the eggs will separate again and so does the cycle of treasure hunt begins anew for the next time that someone will fing and collect all seven royal eggs!
Now that is an world wide Easter egg hunt 🤯😎🧲
7 are still missing and are scattered around the world. Sounds like Dragon balls 😂
Imagine going to flea market and buying random strange egg for 14'000$ 😂
A mere 14,000 dollars 😂😂😂
I think the narrator meant 14 000 rubels.
14 000 is around 172 US dollars.
Lol
No he actually paid USD. It was an antiques market, not a normal flea market. Also the guy recognized the watchmaker Vacheron Constantin, which is one of the major Swiss watch makers, so even without knowing it was a faberge egg it was obvious that this was worth a fair amount.
I think you misspelled rubles. Also he paid US dollars.
He probably mend 14000 Rupees.
Bro took Easter Egg hunting to a new level
Yeah!
I always buy $14k priceless heirlooms at flea markets 😂
Imagine being the person who sold it for $14,000.
Imagine being the guy who thought he got the better deal selling it to him for 14k dollars
"Honey, remember that ugly, stupid egg my mother left me in her will, some idiot bought it for $14,000...what a fool!"
That's a fabulous happy story ❤ here's hoping the rest 0f find us something so good😅
HAHAHA 14 000 dollars at a FLEA MARKET. LOOKING FOR SCRAP METAL. Riiiiight !!
Talk about a golden egg! Lucky man!
Something isn’t right here. Melting that egg down would have never resulted in enough gold to even break even with $14,000.
He was looking for scrap , he didn't buy it as scrap he bought it as a piece of art. These guys know what thier doing, & most flea market dealers don't, thier actually people who clean out houses when people die ,& then sell the clean out stuff at the flea market
Imagine if he melted it and then looked up it’s origins lmao
my Grandmother had a green Faberge egg she bought at a garage sale in 1972 she put it on her daughter's dining room nic nac shelf I haven't seen it since
😮😊
🌴💜☮️💜🌴
Some people were questioning why he bought it for a whole 14,000 dollars, but going by what internet told me is gold's value ($66.39 per gram) it was actually quite appropriate. It had to be only a bit over 200 grams of gold for the price to be worth it purely for the gold.
I also went a little deeper and turns out (according to Wikipedia) that the Third Imperial (the egg in question) was bought for $13,302 in a bric-a-brac market and its gold and gem contents had an estimated value of $15,000. So he had a nifty $1,700 estimated profit (althoug he got a little extra, I imagine).
Whilst there subjects starved they spent unbelievable amounts of money of fancy EGGS. 😮🇬🇧🌈♥️👍
I love Faberge' eggs. So beautiful.
My Nana owns a Fabregè 🥚 bought in a flea markete in Paris France. My Nana didn't pay this much, it's uniquely designed, it's worth a pretty penny! This piece in stunning! ✨️
Enfim , são belíssimas peças ! Simples assim !!
I find it hard to believe that an item as valuable as this was selling at a flea market.
My broke-ass went to a local dollar store for HotPocket and they just happened to have a lost Picasso painting. Bought it for $5k. Time to cash in.
Midwestern man had $14,000 on hand to spend on scrap metal in a flea market. A credible backstory
You're a true one if you know this from the detective Conan movie
A MERE 14 Thousand dollars?
A metal scrapper has that kind of ca$h?
Yah... I call bullsh*t.
$ and alignment.
Wisdom of others. ❤
dude dropped 14k at a flea market. he knew what it was for sure
He didn’t spend $14,000 on just the egg. He purchased a large lot of metals. That’s what scrap metal buyers do. He only expected to get $500 for the egg after it was melted down. So no not $14k for just the egg.
How much for the egg, 15,000.$ will take 14,000.$ 😳
Sounds like B.S. to me. You have 14,000.$ looking for scrap metal at yardsale. 😖
To be honest, I don't think you guys think of a Normal Flea Market... I think the man went to a specialised flea market, where you can sell second hand antiques that you think might have higher values (Like historical memorabilias from wars, etc.)... Most of these can be considered underground dealings... Though I am not sure I think prices are dealt by both seller and buyer... If the seller knows the detailing is worth 14K and the buyer acknowledges it to be worth of such then it is possible it is of that price.
Besides the man went there to melt gold. Any Gold seller would be suspicious as to why the price is hyped that high, I mean if the man wasn't intrigued why would he pay that much? He could just move on to the next item with way more gold at cheaper prices. No, he knows it may be worth more than 14K. If not then Why would he have to spend time researching and looking for details about what he found? That is to be sure he ain't scammed and thank God he did or we'd be loosing another Faberge egg...
I’m heading out the door right now to find the seven missing eggs👍😁🙌💯✅
“Yes sir, definitely not stolen. I uh.....I bought it at the flea market”
Flea market.. then bought $14,000 ? The hell you sayin?
Im going to the flea market tomorrow to buy myself a $14,000 gold egg.
Pick me up a dozen Fabrege eggs while you’re at the market. Uh huh. But still we came here.
He knew exactly what he was buying! 😂
I hope one day I will be rich enough to buy a Faberge egg, it's so beautiful
They sure are
beautiful !!!!! Must have been his lucky day!
That's one lucky dude. Glade a piece of history was found. ❤❤❤
A mere 14k dollars? He knew exactly he got a bargain
The egg was found in a very decrepit state. This video makes it sound like it looked like the "finished" product when found. The egg was completely crushed and took many, many hours of work to even get it to resemble an egg. When found in the flea market, it actually looked like scrap metal.
Wow ! Great finding an antique like that 👍
Yeah, the flea market thing really doesn't hold water at all unless the buyer had an idea of what he might be buying from someone that didn't know any better to reward them substantially in case. Sounds like a story to mask details for legal reasons and circumvent the chain of custody over the decades.
And we have a bingo . ! Sharp mind friend
“Thank you for your time. May I have an armed escort to my car, please.”
Wow.. what an amazing find❤
Buys it with a mere 14000 gtfoh 😂😂😂😂
This story makes no sense. He brought all that dough to a flea market? Mmmmk....👌🏿
"A mere $14,000..."
Me: *looks at pocket lint and starts salivating*
Rest of them were stolen by THOMAS SHELBY 💯💀
I don’t care how much something is worth, there is absolutely no such thing as a “mere” $14,000
Another great STORY..
On sale for $14k at a flea market? I can imagine finding a treasure, but not one with a price tag like that.
I'm sure it wasn't plundered by Nazis during ww2 and then by Americans when liberating....
Which 'flea' market and where.....????
Give details.!
Of course! It's definitely worth $30,000,000 and why wouldn't it end up in the US
the seller punchn the air rn