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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;laura9797, post: 2790961, member: 9323&quot;][ATTACH=full]280499[/ATTACH] We had something a little similar happen at the auction house I worked for a few years ago.&nbsp; One of my consignors was a picker.&nbsp; She came in with a cute little Chinese porcelain wall pocket.&nbsp; No one thought to much of it.&nbsp; The stamp was Qianlong Nian Zhi mark.&nbsp; Could not decipher the &#039;poem&#039;.&nbsp; I estimated it $400 - $600 and the consignor was quite happy.&nbsp; Picked it up at an estate sale of a few bucks.&nbsp; I ended up phone bidding with Beijing for this piece.&nbsp; The consignor was sitting in the audience and she had to get up and leave the room when it hit $10,000.&nbsp;&nbsp; It closed at $50,000.&nbsp; A couple flew in from China and were live bidding - paid in cash and left that day with it.&nbsp; It turned out to from Royalty.&nbsp; The Chinese gov&#039;t was (still is) paying good money for things to be brought back to their country.&nbsp; Of course after that, everyone was hunting for Chinese porcelain wall pockets LOL!!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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