We Are Never Going To Stop Hoping ‘Antiques Roadshow’ Will Happen To Us

(Associated Press/Sotheby's)

(Associated Press/Sotheby’s)

We’ve said it once, we’ve said it a bajillion and four times — we just know there’s some kind of prize out there waiting for us to find, buy for a paltry sum like say, $3, and then discover that it’s worth a whole lotta money. One lucky person snagged a $3 bowl at a tag sale in 2007 and displayed it in the living room for a few years before having it examined. It just sold at auction for $2.2 million. Sigh. [Associated Press]

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