Maybe you are sleeping in a familiar place? Extraordinarily expensive artworks discovered by chance and historical relics

If you find a treasure by accident at a familiar place without going deeper into the underground or deep into the jungle aggressively, such as "digging pool in the garden to discover buried gold", "discovery of national treasure class Buddha statue by cleaning the warehouse" Nice ... ... it may be that everyone dreams at once.

That's why historical · art which was discovered by chance though it was not searching in places all over the world from art objects, literature, etc., which was traded at an extremely high price to something that can not be priced We introduce eight "treasures" with high and cultural high value.

Details are as below.8 Expensive Art Works Found Accidentally

◆Coincidentally during work in a field ......


It is one of the most famous sculptures in the worldMiro's VenusIt was discovered by chance during farm work. In 1820 the Aegean SeaMilosFour stone statues digged when the Greek peasant farm named Yorgos plows the field. Three of themHermesWith 1 bodyAphroditeIt was, but this Aphrodite statue was the French navy GovernorJules Dumont DurbilleAnd brought it back to France as "Milo's Venus (Milos Island Aphrodite)"Louis XV of the worldI made a presentation. Louis XVII donated this to the Louvre and is still exhibited at the Louvre.

◆I picked it up from under the road ......

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On February 21, 1978, when construction was carried out to underground the electric circuit at the intersection where the traffic volume is high in the center of Mexico City,Aztec mythStar's goddessCoyolshawThere was discovered a huge circular stone plate with a diameter of 3.25 m and a weight of 8 ton drawn in a shallow relief. It seems to have been evacuated to the ground before the conquest of the Aztec civilization by Spain in 1521, which was made in the early 15th century. Currently about 70 m from the discovery placeTemplo · Mayor Museum of ArtIt is on display at.

◆Quietly in the hole in the ground ......


In 1978, the Yukon Territory of CanadaDawson CityIt was discovered that 500 movie films from 1903 to 1929 were buried in the hole dug in the ground. Permafrost is fortunate 35 mmNitrocellulose filmIt seems that the preservation state of perfection was perfect.

◆40 years under the bed ......


SpanishVodovilleActor Pepito Perez's wife Joanne, when cleaning under the bed in 1990, was a popular television drama in the '50s "I Love LucyExisting only ofPilot filmI discovered. Pepito who died in 1975 played the role of Lucy during pilot productionLucille BallHe told him to act as guard and acted as a guest as a "clown's repeat", and he said that Lucille Ball and her husband'sDigi · ArnazHe said that he gave the pilot film as a thankful sign for a petit after broadcasting in 1951. The film will continue collecting dusts under the bed of repeat after that. When it was rediscovered in 1990 and broadcasted for the first time in about 40 years already Lucille Ball and Digi Arnaz had already left this world, but the daughter who was in the stomach of Lucille Ball at the time of shootingLucy ArnazHosted a special program.

◆Dignifiedly on the wall he was always watching ......


MilwaukeeMiddle - aged couple in residence asked experts for one painting owned, and the experts were interested in another picture casually put on the wall of the couple 's house. Mr. and Mrs.Van GoghThe painting "Still Life with Flowers" that I thought was a reproduction of the picture of, it turned out that it was the original drawn by Goho's own hand in 1886 by the investigation, March 1991 It seems that the value of 1.4 million dollars (about 180 million yen at the price of the day) arrived at the auction on the 10th.

◆Deep in the trunk in the attic ... ...


Barbara Testa, a library librarian living in Hollywood, told the six steamer trunks of the grandfather James Fraser Gluck (death of 1895), a lawyer in the state of Buffalo, New York, six heavy-duty trunks for long trips in 1961 I inherited it. Over the next several decades, Barbara, who had been checking the contents of the trunk little by little after finding time, seems to have found a handwritten document of 665 pages in the autumn of 1990. How this isMark TwainHis original "Adventure of Huckleberry FinnIt turned out that it was the first half of the manuscript of the book, Buffalo's libraryBuffalo & amp; Erie County Public LibraryI fulfilled the confluence with the manuscript of the latter part. When donating the manuscript to the library in 1885, Mark Twain who thought that the former part was lost at the printing office sent only the second half, but apparently he also found the first half and then served as the librarian of the library at the time It seems he sent it to Mr. Gluck. Mr. Gluck who was kept to bind the manuscripts and bound it was deceived, so I was sleeping in the trunk for nearly a century due to Mr. Gluck 's belongings.

◆From the back of the amount I bought at the flea market ......


Men from financial analysts living in Philadelphia are in PennsylvaniaAdamstownWhen I was looking through the flea market, I saw a wooden picture frame and felt my heart, I bought it for 4 dollars (about 550 yen). When the man returned to the house and removed the old broken picture that he had been framed, I noticed that the folded paper between the canvas and the back board was sandwiched, but this was created in 1776 by surveyAmerican Declaration of Independence(One out of the existing 24 copies), and was awarded at the auction of 2.4 million dollars (about 340 million yen at that time) on June 13, 1991.

◆Actually what I was using instead of a bicycle rack ......


England·SouthamptonArcheology MuseumGod's House Tower Museum of ArchaeologyStaff members used black stones 27 inches high (about 69 cm) in the cellar to stand on their bicycles for many years. Egyptian scholars who were studying museum collections in 2000 seems to have noticed that this stone which was just right in a good size is actually the statue of the Egyptian pharaoh in the seventh century BC. Located in today's SudanKushHe ruled overThe 25th Dynasty of EgyptPharaohsTajarkaIt turned out to be the statue of the museum, and now it seems to be carefully handled as a collection of museums and exhibited.