ONE MAN'S TRASH IS ANOTHER'S TREASURE
Similar sayings to 'one man's trash' .......
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One man's meat is another man's poison.
One man's ceiling is another man's floor. One man's loss is another man's profit. One man's fault is another man's lesson. |
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I 'TREASURE, PUBLICATIONS ABOUT TREASURE
Please email me if you want to sell
ANY OF THE BOOKS BELOW:
1. Worldwide Magazine June 1934
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2. 'In Australia Treasure is not for the finder'
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3. 'Treasure Lies Buried Here'
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Email Rex Woodmore: [email protected]
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Living On Landfill - Life on a Thai rubbish dump
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In 2008 photographer Fred Stockwell visited a rubbish dump on the Thai-Burma border. Despite, the poverty, hunger and insecurity this dump is home to hundreds of Burmese refugees unable to return to Burma.
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Overwhelmed by the situation Fred sold up everything he owned and moved back to the dump and now dedicates his life to assisting families improve their lives while continuing their lives and work on the dump.
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THE INDIANA JONES OF TRASH
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Nelson Molina’s collection of more than 50 thousand pieces, collectibles he picked out while working over three decades for the New York Department of Sanitation.
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BABE RUTH BASEBALL CARD
Hits a high note!
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The lady’s aunt had died in 1969 and the aunt’s piano had remained unwanted in the family until around 1992 when the family eventually had an estate sale and the lady's bid of $25 won it for her.
It was in need of repairs and a friend offered to fix it. That's when they made the discovery of a hidden treasure trove of sports memorabilia that consisted of over 100 Baseball cards including a rare babe Ruth card. |
Babe Ruth Card Rare & Valuable
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The lady suspected her uncle had hidden the cards in the piano because her aunt saw them as trash and wanted to throw them out.
Thanks to her $25 investment the lady is now set up nicely for her retirement years. In 2019 the rare and well-preserved Babe Ruth 1916 rookie baseball card, (which is considered to be one of the top sports collectibles) hidden for decades inside the old, non-working piano, sold on April 26 2019 for more than $130,000.
The pre-sale estimate was $60,000-$75,000.
The pre-sale estimate was $60,000-$75,000.
Babe Ruth Memorabilia
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Babe Ruth was a prolific signer of baseball memorabilia. There are lots of authentic Babe Ruth autographs that sell for very high prices , so it shouldn't be a surprise to hear that his signature is one of the most forged in the history of U.S. sports.
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ONE MAN'S STATUE – ANOTHER MAN’S JUNK
valuable statue reduced to scrap.
A Western Australian junk yard called the police when they realised they had a mutilated stolen statue mixed up with brass bits and pieces in their yard.
Scrapped Statue
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The statue, missing for a year,
was originally in a park, where witnesses reported seeing men dressed as maintenance workers removing the 200 kg brass sculpture and carting it away in a truck. |
The complete statue, valued at $44,000 was worth only about $300 as scrap.
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INVEST IN ART WHILE THE ARTIST IS ALIVE!
Rex Woodmore has sold over 100 paintings. Currently, his artwork may be purchased for $1000 or less. Vincent Van Gogh, on the other hand, sold only one painting during his lifetime. Now, his artwork can fetch upwards of $100,000,000.
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FRAMED FAKE
He literally stumbled on it!
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An unemployed homeless guy literally stumbled on a painting lying on the road verge in front of a house owned by a very wealthy businessman, who had just passed away. The painting had been thrown out for the garbage collectors by the family who were only interested in clearing things out so the house could be sold.
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Van Gogh Painting in frame.
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When the homeless guy tripped over the ornate frame of the painting, a corner of the canvas slipped out enough to reveal the artist’s signature ‘Vincent’. He realised that it was almost certainly a fake 'Vincent Van Gogh' but could still be worth a couple of bucks to someone.
Vincent (Van Gogh) signature
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So he pulled the canvas out completely from is heavy ornate gold frame, rolled it up, tucked it under his arm and headed off to the local ‘second hand’ dealer, a knowledgeable and honest man, who confirmed that it was a fake, worth about $50.00. But if it was framed it could be worth about $100 at auction.
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So the homeless guy went back to where he got it from and picked up the frame. He had to wait for a week for the auction, but it was well worth the wait. The photo of the artwork in its frame was online. Several bidders recognized the frame as quite valuable. (Antique picture frames are highly valued collectibles in Europe, where they are often displayed, without canvases, as art in their own right).
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The winning bidder paid $2000 for the frame and when he heard how it came to be in the auction, he gave the canvas back to its finder who eventually got another $50.00 for it in the following auction.
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Valuable antique frames
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Good News Update: The dealer gave the homeless guy a room above the auction house and employed him to help with future auctions.
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RARE VASE AT A YARD SALE
A 19 year old Picker at a garage sale makes over $300,000
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A 19-year-old kid in the US picked up a snowmobile helmet and an interesting looking vase at a yard sale. Not realizing he had found a treasure, he shoved the vase in the helmet for the car ride home.
Back home an online research showed a similar vase had sold for $90,000. Marked with the Marblehead sailing ship mark, it is one of four known examples of this style of vase. |
He sent an image through to an expert who drove 250 miles the next morning to pick up the vase. The auction estimate was a low $10,000 with 18 bidders and eventually his yard sale vase sold at a Skinner auction for a record $303,000, far more than its $10,000 to $12,000 estimate. The young picker and his family “were thrilled when it hit $50,000, and then it went over $100,000”
Eventually he sold the snowmobile helmet on Craigslist for the $60 he paid for both the helmet and vase. Not bad pick when one considers that he paid less than $60.00 for two items!
Eventually he sold the snowmobile helmet on Craigslist for the $60 he paid for both the helmet and vase. Not bad pick when one considers that he paid less than $60.00 for two items!
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SOME MIGHT SAY IT IS TRASH
THE BEATLES WHITE ALBUM
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Over 19 million copies of The Beatles 'White Album' were produced and sold.
So you might not expect it to be called ‘rare’ and yet after being stored in a vault for more than 35 years Ringo Starr’s personal ultra rare, mint condition copy auctioned for almost AUD$920,000 (£522,438) with all proceeds going to his Lotus Foundation. Ringo Starr had the first numbered copy 0000001. John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison snatched up numbered copies 0000002 to 0000004, and no telling when, if ever, they'll make it onto the market. |
A rare vinyl treasure!
Rarest Vinyl Record in the World
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However in 2008 0000005, an almost mint condition copy of The Beatles’ White Album sold on eBay for £19,201 ( That is almost $30,000 USD) Record Collector magazine ranked this 1968 LP as Number 1 in its list of the 200 rarest records of all time. A true rare vinyl treasure!
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TRAGEDY and TREASURE in TRASH,
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Tragic scenes in a garbage tip.
Life in and around Phnom Penh's garbage dump. People who live and work here search for plastics and cans in order to resell to wholesalers who ship it to Vietnam for recycling. On average people here earn between $1-$2 a day. |
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BUNDLE OF BOOKS
Contained a treasure!
IMAGES OF THE MYSTERIOUS 15th CENTURY VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT
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MYSTERIOUS 15th CENTURY WRITINGS
THE VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT It is about 100 years since its discovery in Italy by Wilfrid Voynich, an antique book dealer from Poland, after whom it has been named ‘The Voynich Manuscript’ bought it amongst a bundle of second-hand books. |
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Believed to have been written in the early 1400s, the world's most mysterious medieval manuscript, has 240 pages written in an unknown alphabet & unknown language.
Perhaps even stranger, it has drawings & paintings of unknown plants & astronomical signs.
Inside the book there was a letter, that has been dated to 1666, it is claimed the book had belonged to the Emperor Rudolf II who was a patron of artists and scientists.
It is but was not known of until 1912, when an antique book dealer in Italy, found it in a bundle of books that he had purchased.
Until recent times translation of this, the world's most mysterious medieval manuscript, has eluded cryptographers, mathematicians and linguists for over a century. It has even eluded the team of prominent code breakers who, during WWII, successfully cracked the codes used in enemy messages. Whether it is a complex code or simply a hoax and whether it has any meaningful information, is debated by many.
One suggestion was that it is ancient herbal remedy book, and that the images of women, might be showing them in milk (As was Cleopatra’s habit) or in herbal concoctions.
Other stories & theories include the suggestion that a con artist called Edward Kelley wrote the manuscript in the mid 1500s as a hoax and sold it for big money. But a modern scientific study using carbon dating* at 1400, ruled it out.
Other more ‘out there’ wild suggestions are that it was written by an alien from outer space, in his own alphabet and language and about his life and plants back home.....(I say that's "Rubbish!" You decide!)
Inside the book there was a letter, that has been dated to 1666, it is claimed the book had belonged to the Emperor Rudolf II who was a patron of artists and scientists.
It is but was not known of until 1912, when an antique book dealer in Italy, found it in a bundle of books that he had purchased.
Until recent times translation of this, the world's most mysterious medieval manuscript, has eluded cryptographers, mathematicians and linguists for over a century. It has even eluded the team of prominent code breakers who, during WWII, successfully cracked the codes used in enemy messages. Whether it is a complex code or simply a hoax and whether it has any meaningful information, is debated by many.
One suggestion was that it is ancient herbal remedy book, and that the images of women, might be showing them in milk (As was Cleopatra’s habit) or in herbal concoctions.
Other stories & theories include the suggestion that a con artist called Edward Kelley wrote the manuscript in the mid 1500s as a hoax and sold it for big money. But a modern scientific study using carbon dating* at 1400, ruled it out.
Other more ‘out there’ wild suggestions are that it was written by an alien from outer space, in his own alphabet and language and about his life and plants back home.....(I say that's "Rubbish!" You decide!)
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I AM STILL SCRATCHING MY HEAD ABOUT THIS!
Personally, I am in favour of it being a hoax.
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*Carbon dating is very inaccurate
(A living goat was once carbon dated at 2000 years old). Even if carbon dating was accurate, it could only tell you how old the ink was or the wood fibers were in the paper, but not when it was written on. |
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PICK of the GARBAGE
Gold detected in a gold detector.
A pensioner in need of cash, had a dream of finding gold, but couldn’t afford a metal detector, let alone the cost of fuel to get to the Goldfields. He had to restrict his treasure hunting to fossicking in the piles of illegally dumped household junk, in the vacant land opposite his house. He was wandering through the grass and trees looking at the mess when he spotted the old wooden handle of what he thought was a miner’s pick, sticking out from under a roll of dirty carpet. He tried dragging it out but the carpet was too heavy, so in a cloud of dust and dog hairs he rolled over the smelly carpet and was delighted to find that it was indeed a miners pick and not only that, he also found a battered old metal detector.
He returned home, to the displeasure of his wife who said “Not more garbage! “ She picked up the detector and gave it a severe shake. It rattled loudly and pieces dropped out onto the floor “See it’s broken! “She said.
“It is now!” said her husband, but as he reached down to pick up the broken bits, he couldn’t believe his eyes, the ‘pieces’ lying on the floor were several gold nuggets weighing in total just over an ounce! Why the gold was in the detector is anyone's guess!
“It is now!” said her husband, but as he reached down to pick up the broken bits, he couldn’t believe his eyes, the ‘pieces’ lying on the floor were several gold nuggets weighing in total just over an ounce! Why the gold was in the detector is anyone's guess!
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LOOK and LEARN
Coins metal detecting
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Ammo cases metal detecting
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Locks & keys metal detecting
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Fishing sinkers metal detecting
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It is amazing what can be found if you start looking! Here's a few things I have found: Pre-decimal and decimal coins, Cartridge cases, Horseshoe, Iron ball from a ball mill, Silver & Gold Rings & Jewelry, Lock, Keys, Bits of Copper & Lead Sinkers. Some were found without a metal detector.
Articles of value (Rings & other Jewelry) are handed over to be held by the Western Australian Police for a period of 2 months. If no one claims them I get them back and can quite legally sell them.
Articles of value (Rings & other Jewelry) are handed over to be held by the Western Australian Police for a period of 2 months. If no one claims them I get them back and can quite legally sell them.
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VALUE OF SCRAP SILVER & GOLD
To Sell Gold: Local jewellers or in Western Australia ‘The Perth Mint’.
Perth Mint
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Scrap gold can be anything made of gold. You can cash in your gold teeth, jewelry, nuggets & coins. Take care, sometimes these things can be worth more as collectibles than as scrap metal.
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The Perth Mint Swindle is the popular name for the robbery of 49 gold bars weighing 68 kilograms (150 pounds; 2,200 troy ounces) from the Perth Mint in Western Australia on 22 June 1982. The bullion was valued at A$653,000 at that time (equivalent to $2,305,827 in 2018).
SCRAP SILVER: SILVER PRICE CALCULATOR
SCRAP GOLD: GOLD PRICE CALCULATOR
The price can change hourly, so check again just before you sell.
Expect to receive 10-20% less than your calculated value to
offset the costs of refining and profit.
SCRAP GOLD: GOLD PRICE CALCULATOR
The price can change hourly, so check again just before you sell.
Expect to receive 10-20% less than your calculated value to
offset the costs of refining and profit.
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You will need a Magnifying Glass to read the markings on the gold.
Sort the Gold by Karat into separate bundles. (If it is not marked with 9kt, 18kt and so on then it will have to be tested to determine its karat). |
A pile of scrap gold.
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A pile of scrap silver.
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Then using a scale that weighs in grams (Digital scales are best) weigh
and record how many grams of each you have. Now simply use one of many online calculators. |
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