Vous n'allez pas en croire vos oreilles ! Un homme utilisait depuis des années une pierre étrange comme butoir de porte, pensant qu'il s'agissait d'une pierre ordinaire. En fait, il s'agissait d'une météorite très précieuse ! Après l'avoir laissé traîner pendant des dizaines d'années, l'homme a fini par se poser des questions et l'a fait examiner par des experts. La pierre a finalement été estimée à une petite fortune, bien plus que ce à quoi il s'attendait. Vous vous imaginez à sa place, avec une chose d'une telle valeur pour coincer votre porte pendant tout ce temps ? Quelle trouvaille formidable ! Animation créée par Sympa. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Musique par Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com Pour ne rien perdre de Sympa, abonnez-vous!: https://goo.gl/6E4Xna ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nos réseaux sociaux : Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sympasympacom/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sympa.officiel/ Stock de fichiers (photos, vidéos et autres): https://www.depositphotos.com https://www.shutterstock.com https://www.eastnews.ru ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Si tu en veux encore plus, fais un tour ici: http://sympa-sympa.com
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00:00In the 1980s, David Mazurek, originally from Michigan, decided to buy a farm not far from Mount Pleasant.
00:07The former owner made David visit his new property when he noticed a large stone with a strange appearance.
00:14It was used to keep the door of a barn open.
00:17Mazurek asked for the origin of this door lock and the farmer explained that it was actually a meteorite.
00:23It had arrived on the property with a shattering noise in the 1930s.
00:28The next morning, the farmer and his father had discovered the crater that the meteorite had dug
00:34and had extracted this guest from space, still warm.
00:38He had found a function for it, a door lock, and the good news for the new owner
00:43was that the meteorite was sold with the property.
00:46He decided not to change anything as long as he lived on the site.
00:50When he moved, he took the big stone and used it again as a door lock for another thirty years.
00:56Sometimes, David let his children take the meteorite to school to show it to other students.
01:01It was then that he discovered that some residents of Michigan were making money by selling the meteorites they found.
01:07As his stone was huge, it weighed ten kilos, he decided to bring it to the Central University of Michigan to know the value of it.
01:15He found there a geology teacher, a little tired of all the estimates that had been submitted to him for nearly twenty years
01:22for pebbles that were nothing but meteorites.
01:25But this time, she felt from the start that she was dealing with something special.
01:30She analyzed the stone and determined that it was a real meteorite made up of 88.5% iron and 11.5% nickel.
01:41It was the sixth largest discovery of this type in Michigan and the most precious specimen she had ever seen.
01:48A sample was sent to the Smithsonian Institution of Washington for a new series of tests
01:54and everything was officially confirmed.
01:56It also turned out that the meteorite belonged to a primitive solar system.
02:01The Smithsonian and a museum in Maine considered buying the meteorite for a considerable sum.
02:06In the end, Mazurek sold it to the Abrams Planetarium at the State University of Michigan for $75,000.
02:12He gave 20% of this sum to the Department of Earth Sciences and the Central University of Michigan,
02:18which had confirmed the origin and authenticity of the stone.
02:22For a long time, a painting by the famous Florentine artist of the 13th century, Sy Mabu, seemed to be in vogue.
02:28But in 2019, it made a surprise appearance in the comfortable house of an old lady living in French countryside.
02:35The lady was about to sell her house and had invited a foreman to find out how much she could get for her goods.
02:43I guess she didn't expect the painting, which had served as decoration in her kitchen for many years, to be worth millions.
02:51The foreman noticed that the painting had the touch of a famous painter who lived several centuries ago.
02:57The expertise then confirmed that it was an original from a series made in 1280,
03:03and one of the 11 paintings of Sy Mabu still present in the world.
03:07The infrared analysis revealed the subtle corrections made by the artist during the creation process,
03:12which strengthened the authenticity of the painting.
03:15Art experts thought that the painting would be sold at auction for about $6 million.
03:20But they were wrong.
03:21The new owner spent more than $26 million to acquire the masterpiece.
03:26In 1831, a chessboard with carved pieces, all made of ivory, was found in the sand dunes of Lewis Island.
03:35Five pieces were missing.
03:36Almost two centuries later, a family from Edinburgh brought a piece of chess to the prestigious auction house, Sotheby's.
03:44The grandfather of the family had bought it when he was young.
03:48He had acquired it in 1964 for only $6 and had passed it on to his daughter.
03:53And although the family had no idea of the real value or importance of the piece,
03:58they had estimated that it was a precious asset.
04:00They kept it at home as a family heritage and sometimes took it out to admire it.
04:06By examining the piece, Sotheby's staff realized that it was a chess piece from Lewis dating from the 12th or early 13th century
04:14and being part of a famous game.
04:16The other chess pieces of Lewis were found in institutions such as the British Museum
04:21and the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.
04:24The complexity of the execution, the historical importance and the mystery of its course contributed to its value.
04:31And it was sold at the auctions in London for the sum of $925,000.
04:35Imagine that you are digging in a quarry and that you find a diamond ring of 26 carats for $13.
04:43This has everything to do with an urban legend, but it is indeed what happened to a lady in the United Kingdom.
04:49She was convinced that the object in question was a fantasy jewel.
04:53And she wore it with disdain for about thirty years.
04:56One day, she still decided to have the ring examined to see if it was worth more than $13.
05:01And it turned out that the stone they were given was a diamond that probably belonged to a member of the royal family
05:07or to a very fortunate person of the 19th century.
05:10It was before the discovery of modern diamond mines, and there were very few of these stones in the whole world.
05:16Recognizing that it was a diamond was difficult, because it did not look at all like the ones we are used to today.
05:23When we think of diamonds, we imagine something sparkling.
05:27This one had been designed to be lit with a candle, with a size and an old mount that had darkened over time.
05:34The money had run out, and the ring was also probably very dirty.
05:38It was sold at the Sotheby's auction in London for nearly $850,000.
05:43And the experts think that the adventure is not over.
05:46The new owner can have it re-cut to give it a more modern look.
05:50And with more splinters, it could be worth several times that price.
05:54In 2011, Frank Abrams, a lawyer from North Carolina,
05:58came across a 19th century ferrotype in a flea market.
06:02He bought it for $10.
06:04It was an ordinary photo of five cowboys.
06:07But experts today think that one of these men could be the sadly famous outlaw Billy the Kid.
06:13Frank Abrams realized that he was perhaps in possession of a historical gem,
06:17by watching a television show in which a photograph of Billy the Kid playing croquet appeared.
06:23A Google search led him to images of Pat Garrett, the sheriff of the Lincoln County, in New Mexico.
06:31He was famous for stealing the life of Billy the Kid.
06:34Mr. Abrams was struck by the discovery of a silhouette that looked like Pat Garrett.
06:40And he wondered if the thin man in the background was not Billy the Kid himself.
06:45He asked the help of analysts and professors,
06:47who had reasons to believe that the photo represented Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett.
06:52An expert in manuscript writing from Texas
06:54managed to match a signature on the image to samples known from Garrett's writing.
07:00But experts think that the photo dates from the late 19th century.
07:03How this image ended up on a flea market in North Carolina remains a mystery.
07:08Another photo of Billy the Kid, recently discovered and the representative playing croquet,
07:13was valued at $5 million.
07:16Abrams' stereotype, on the other hand, could have an even higher value.
07:20But Abrams does not want to separate from this historical treasure.
07:23He considers himself lucky and privileged to have found it.
07:27Larry Howe, a sales agent at Milwaukee's Capital Court,
07:31was tidying up a storage room.
07:34The mall was about to be demolished.
07:37He found a pair of sneakers in the middle of the mess.
07:40He quickly realized that they were not ordinary shoes
07:43and that they certainly did not fit in a pile of garbage.
07:47Howe recognized Michael Jordan's signature on the side of one of the shoes.
07:51He realized that they had been exhibited in the Playmakers sportswear store at one time.
07:56The 47-point sneakers bore the inscription,
08:00My Very Best.
08:02Howe decided to put his shoes up for auction
08:04and the starting price was set at $20,000.