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Snapshot of a curly-haired teenager wearing jeans in a basketball gym (probably his high school's), holding up a yellow warm-up jacket labelled "CHAMBERLAIN".
source: https://www.wweek.com/culture...
"Back in January, Portland teenager Quinn Brown found a Wilt Chamberlain Los Angeles Lakers warm-up jacket in the Goodwill Bins. It cost $3.07. Brown suspected it was the real deal, though, based on its worn appearance and some online photo-sleuthing. The stitch patterns seemed to match the jacket the NBA star wore during the 1972 Finals.
"He was right.
"The gold-and-purple short-sleeved jacket was professionally authenticated and it’s going up for auction at Sotheby’s New York starting July 1. It’s estimated it will fetch $150,000 to $250,000, according to the auction house, which calls the jacket 'rare and significant.'"
Trying to find the thing I saw on how they authenticated it based on some photos of like a 1972 playoffs game, which was also neat.
"Back in January, Portland teenager Quinn Brown found a Wilt Chamberlain Los Angeles Lakers warm-up jacket in the Goodwill Bins. It cost $3.07. Brown suspected it was the real deal, though, based on its worn appearance and some online photo-sleuthing. The stitch patterns seemed to match the jacket the NBA star wore during the 1972 Finals.
"He was right.
"The gold-and-purple short-sleeved jacket was professionally authenticated and it’s going up for auction at Sotheby’s New York starting July 1. It’s estimated it will fetch $150,000 to $250,000, according to the auction house, which calls the jacket 'rare and significant.'"
Trying to find the thing I saw on how they authenticated it based on some photos of like a 1972 playoffs game, which was also neat.
I know somebody who had collected several very large (20' x 30' or so), very legitimate Oriental rugs from their time working in diplomatic corps, each easily worth in the high four, low five digits. They were sold somewhere around $75 each because their heirs had literally two days to clear out an entire house and didn't have time or the means to carefully sell everything that might be valuable.
Later I hear he forwarded the pic to the artist, who authenticated it, and the work itself sold for a pleasant five figure sum.
So, I can kinda tell you that for me, it's "Welp, sometimes they get away."