Painting Worth $1,25 Million
The owner of a 19th-century painting “Magnolias on Gold Velvet Cloth” by American painter Martin Johnson Heade has bought it for almost nothing along with some furniture. He didn’t know that that painting really has worth, and he hung it over a hole in his wall.
He played a board game about art by the name of Masterpiece and it featured a very similar print. Thanks to that game he found out that painting he thought is worthless actually has great value.
In 1999, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston paid him $1.25 million for the painting.