American Lauren Kraytser for $ 1.5 million sold a unique cover for the work of the Indians of the Navajo people: the owner for a long time did not suspect the value of this household item. "Everyone likes stories where someone suddenly turns from a beggar into a rich man," says Kraitzer. As he writes CNBC, most of his life he worked as a carpenter, until the car accident in 2007 did not deprive him of his profession: a man spent more than six months in the hospital and because of the developed infection he was forced to agree to an amputation of the foot.
The Indian-made blanket, which in the future will make Kraytsera a millionaire, went to him in 2005 as a legacy from a deceased grandmother. Lauren remembers that he went to her house to pick up the books left to him. "By the time I arrived, all my property had already been shared by my sister and mother," says the man.. One of the last things that no one else had to pick up was a bag with two blankets, which the grandmother herself received from her mother. Sister Kraytsera grabbed a shop cover, and the second, which was once used to take birth in a cat, fell to the floor.
"I asked her," What are you going to do about it? "She replied that she did not need this dirty old stuff," says Kraitzer. He took the veil and put it in the closet, where it lay for years. All this time the man lived in poverty, the only source of his income was a modest disability allowance.
One day, Kraytser saw on the TV show Antiques Roadshow, in which collector Don Ellis estimated the cost of another hand-made Navajo Indian covered in $ 500 thousand.
Kraytser began to look for experts who could determine the cost of his veil, and soon one of the appraisers agreed to put him on auction. Specialist said that for the cover it will be possible to raise up to $ 200 thousand. Bidding took place in 2012: they lasted only 77 seconds and the lot went for $ 1.5 million. "I could not believe it all.. All my life I worked hard, I lived from salary to salary. Now I became rich and could not understand: what do rich people do with such huge money? "- recalls Lauren Kraytser.