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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lizjewel, post: 2412072, member: 13874&quot;]There is a valuable lesson in sometimes NOT knowing what a socalled <i>value</i> should be. </p><p><br /></p><p>It varies not only with the item but with its <i>provenance</i>, history. People will pay <i>sky-is-limit</i> prices for items of insignificant intrinsic worth because they were once owned by a famous person if there is provenance, proof, that they are genuine. </p><p><br /></p><p>Examples of baseball cards with small faded print pictures of long-dead players on dog-eared cheap cardboard can sell for extremely hight prices because a) the picture is of a very famous player, and b) he also signed it. Without the picture and signature, the card is just a piece of old paper. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you can find the history behind this small wardrobe, even if it&#039;s seen its share of hard wear being moved around in the past, and the provenance bears out that it once belonged to a famous person, you&#039;ll have struck <i>finder&#039;s gold</i>. </p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes just a photograph with, say, Princess Diana, in front of the wardrobe, could authenticate it. Perhaps it wasn&#039;t hers, but her maid&#039;s? Such a genuine photograph would lend credence to a noble past and you could profit.</p><p><br /></p><p>If it&#039;s just anyone&#039;s old <i>armoire</i>, well, then your research online and locally where you live will reveal what you might expect for it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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