ever discovered something valuable without knowing it?

[Icey101]

its not much....

but i was browsing through a used books shop and found a copy of Reach for the Sky by Douglas Bader, it was a special childrens editions....

when i got it home i discovered when i opened it, it had his signature on the second page

it could be worth about a hundred bucks or so

 

[baalroo]

this question is a paradox

 

[ShredderMaximus]

Picked up a little Yamaha SHS-10 keytar for 20$ from a thrift shop one time, thinking it was only a toy, but a cool novelty item. After a year or so I saw an ad here on TB with a picture of it, so I decided to further investigate my little keytar that had been sitting in the closet for the past year, and found that they are actually fairly sought after little instruments and go for upwards to 150-300$ due to the high quality midi-out capabilities and other cool features. The only thing is that, while its a decent little keytar, its hard to sell to someone unless they know what it is, since it does look like a toy.

But there is alot of fun to be had with it when hooked up to a midi synth program (or whatever you call it) on my computer, and in true 80's epicness, the built in demo tune is Whams "Last Christmas," lol.

 

[GeneralElectric]

I've found lots of cool valuable stuff in the trash before. 40s Gibson Archtop, rare Peter Max poster, antique furniture, a bag of old coins, etc, etc.

I've also picked up instruments that I didn't know where valuable at yardsales for extremely cheap. Then I'd mod the crap out of them and discover they were worth millions! Well, er, hundreds of dollars....