Nice Thrift Store Find

A 50's era Master's Jacket purchased for $5.00 sells at auction for $139,000. Nice find by someone.

http://www.breitbart.com/sports/201...rift-store-for-5-sells-for-139000-at-auction/

Bumping to hopefully hear more about that jacket later.

I can't even count how many times I've heard these stories before. People that have no idea what they hold in their hands as they toss it away while cleaning out past away relatives houses, etc.

One guy on 'Antiques Road Show' brought in a table from the 16th Century that he sanded down and re-finished to get an appraisal.

He was basically told he'd sanded off about a million dollars worth of original patina, and that it's just scrap wood now. Probably worth about five dollars.

Oops.

Interesting. Bought in 1994 at thrift store. Sold just this month for 139k. All original lables were in tact in the jacket except for who the jacket was awarded to. The Masters Officials would not speculate as to who might have been the original owner of the jacket.

I also hope to hear more on this if the mystery is figured out.