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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Connie Osborne, post: 184080, member: 3301&quot;]Two years ago I bought a cute little basket at a yard sale for .50.&nbsp; You know how it is, you see something, it speaks to you and you just know you have a treasure (or you hope and imagine it).&nbsp; Well, I&#039;ve just had that little basket sitting around in my house for two years.&nbsp; Then I was watching our local tv station and there was going to be a segment about hidden treasures, they asked their viewer to send in pictures and a local auction house would pick from them and tell on air what you have.&nbsp; PERFECT--I sent in two pictures, one of the basket and one of a jug I couldn&#039;t identify hoping that I could get an idea of just what I might have.&nbsp; Thinking&nbsp; &amp; hoping that if ANYTHING got picked it would be the jug that I had been trying to find out about for 7 years.&nbsp; I got an email from the studio and they requested more pictures not saying which they picked but to watch the show.&nbsp; WELL&lt; to my surprise they picked the basket.&nbsp; The guy went on to say that it was Native American 1960 Hopi basket worth about $125!&nbsp; I was so excited.&nbsp; BUT I looked up Hopi baskets and it really didn&#039;t seem to fit.&nbsp; So I found an Art Gallery on line that specialized in Native American Arts. The curator even does Youtube videos on how to spot originals.&nbsp; So, with my newly found curiosity on this little basket, I sent pictures to the Gallery.&nbsp; To my surprise, he emailed me right back, told me it was a Pima basket c.1920&#039;s and has a retail value of $175!&nbsp; Not much more money, but I looked at Pima Baskets, and NOW this MATCHED!!&nbsp; How cool to know that my little .50 find was that old and that the Gallery was interested in it--I write all of this because I just sent it off to the Gallery this morning and I am on cloud NINE!&nbsp; Not so much the money, but that I was right--it was truly[ATTACH=full]51641[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]51642[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]51643[/ATTACH] a Hidden Treasure!&nbsp; I am so HAPPY that I have this forum to share with---[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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