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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gregsglass, post: 229485, member: 78&quot;]Hi,</p><p>&nbsp; My best was back in 1985, I found a wonderful American Empire book case with desk. It was 9½ feet tall and 5 ft wide. It was in the junk store for over a year. No one had the space for it. I had just moved into a Brooklyn brownstone with 10 foot ceilings. I bought it for 225 dollars. Luckily it came in three sections, the book case, the desk and the bottom cabinet. Found several &quot;hidden&quot; drawers and spaces. One small drawer had a Geo Washington letter. Another larger one had 14 British gold sovereigns wrapped in a cloth bag. I thought I hit the jackpot with those two pieces. A few weeks later I was polishing my &quot;gold mine&quot; and the fat pillar on the base came loose and I pulled it open. It had a sterling set of flatware service for 10, 80 pieces. My 225 dollar bargain bought 1000 bucks when I sold it six years later. I still have the Washington letter. The gold and sterling sold for over 10k. The junk store had no record of whom it belonged to or were it came from. As far as I know the piece is still in that Brooklyn house.</p><p>greg[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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