EBay, Collectors, Flea Market & Antiques

opportunity to find out what it is. Plus, in this case, $35 for a bowl at a yard sale is a high price unless the seller thinks it has some value. There was a case not far from where I live where people were working as "volunteers" for a church collecting donations for a charity auction. A lady donated a painting and the "volunteers" (one or all, I forget) thought it might be worth something and took it to the city to a well known auction gallery for evaluation. The painting was valued at about $400,000 as I recall so instead of taking it back to the lady who donated it, they waited for the auction and bought it for about $3,500 and later sold it through the auction gallery. I think I have a memory of a lawsuit in that case, but in that case I think it would have been justified.