Un homme en Indonésie a fait une découverte incroyable lorsqu'il a trouvé une pierre étrange, ressemblant à de la cire, en marchant sur la plage. Il ne savait pas que cette pierre s'avérerait être de l'ambre gris, également connu sous le nom de vomi de baleine, et qu'elle vaudrait la somme colossale de 470 000 dollars ! L'ambre gris est une substance rare produite dans les intestins des cachalots et est très prisée par l'industrie du parfum pour prolonger la durée des senteurs. Lorsque l'homme a réalisé ce qu'il avait trouvé, il a été choqué par sa valeur. Ce n'est pas tous les jours que l'on trouve un tel trésor à portée de main ! Alors, la prochaine fois que vous voyez quelque chose d'étrange sur la plage, cela pourrait bien valoir une fortune. 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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00:00A 55-year-old Thai fisherman was walking, as usual, on Koh Samui beach
00:05when he found a huge piece of yellow material in the sand.
00:09He thought it could be gray amber,
00:12also known as the treasure of floating seas and gold,
00:15or, less poetically, whale vomit.
00:18This incredibly expensive substance is mostly used in the perfume industry.
00:23For someone who earns about $10 a day, such a discovery changes life.
00:27The fisherman was not 100% sure that it was gray amber,
00:31so he put it in his hangar and went back to work.
00:35The news spread and his neighbors offered to help him
00:38determine if the piece had any value.
00:40They asked him for samples that he said Banshee wanted to be analyzed,
00:44then told him that it was nothing special.
00:47Almost a year later, the fisherman decided to solve the mystery himself
00:51and called on the authorities to proceed with tests.
00:54The governor of the province arrived with specialists
00:57who confirmed that the discovery contained more than 8% gray amber.
01:01He also found out that he could sell his treasure for more than $400,000.
01:06The fisherman was, we can not be happier.
01:08Can you imagine that?
01:10Similar stories come to us regularly from different parts of the world.
01:13It happened that people find floating gold,
01:16worth more than a million dollars.
01:18It has been used for more than a million years.
01:20Whales eat calamari and dried fish.
01:23And it happens that they swallow the beak and the gladius of these creatures,
01:26which transform in a few years into a huge mass of matter.
01:31Once extracted, gray amber has a terrible smell,
01:34but when it dries, it becomes musky.
01:36The liquid that is removed allows the perfume to keep its smell longer.
01:40Gray amber is the most precious
01:43and is only used in the most expensive perfumes.
01:46One day, a woman bought a painting on a market in West Virginia for $ 7.
01:51She wanted to get rid of the work and keep the beautiful frame.
01:55But having some doubts, she decided to show it to an expert first.
01:59He quickly determined that the painting had been painted by the famous French artist Renoir.
02:04There was also an inscription in French,
02:06as well as a label and a number on the back of the canvas.
02:09The expert immediately found it in the catalog of works of the Impressionist master.
02:14The touch corresponded exactly to that of the painter.
02:17After some research,
02:19the expert also discovered that the painting had probably been offered by the artist to his model,
02:25who had then sold it to an American lawyer.
02:27It is worth several tens of thousands of dollars.
02:29Jessica Vincent, a horse trainer in Virginia,
02:33loves to go to flea markets and has always dreamed of finding an object
02:36that would be worth thousands of dollars in a Goodwill store.
02:39One day, she noticed a pretty glass vase
02:42among old kitchen items and canned food.
02:45At the bottom of the vase, there was a mark indicating Murano, Italy.
02:49This vase pleased her so much that she was ready to pay a large sum to be able to acquire it,
02:54but it only cost 4 dollars.
02:56When she brought it home, she posted photos of her purchase on Facebook
03:00and someone recommended her to join a private group dedicated to Murano glasses.
03:04The members of this group helped Jessica to identify the creator of the vase,
03:08the Italian glassmaker Carlo Scarpa.
03:11The vase was made in the 1940s and, as its creator died a few decades later,
03:17it had become a rarity.
03:19Collectors were looking for vases of this type,
03:21but they were so expensive that few of them could afford them.
03:26Jessica then contacted the president of a auction house in Chicago,
03:30who confirmed to her that her object, especially with its colors,
03:33was really rare and precious.
03:35She loved the vase,
03:37but she didn't feel comfortable keeping such an expensive object in her farm.
03:41And she needed money to heat up her new property.
03:45She ended up selling the vase at an auction for 85,000 dollars.
03:49In France, a couple of elderly people found an African mask while vacating their secondary residence.
03:55They decided to sell it to a local antique dealer,
03:58who agreed to buy it for a little over 150 dollars.
04:01A few months later, they learned from a newspaper
04:03that their mask had been sold at an auction for nearly 4.5 million dollars.
04:08It was a rare model,
04:10whose wood was covered with kaolin.
04:12It had been used during rituals by an African secret society.
04:16The grandfather of the man had brought it from Gabon,
04:19where he had lived at the beginning of the 20th century.
04:21The couple attempted a fair action against the dealer,
04:24who had not indicated to them the real value of the mask.
04:27They were convinced that he knew it,
04:29because instead of selling the mask in his store,
04:32he had immediately contacted auction houses.
04:35The first two had underestimated the finding,
04:38but the third had asked for a carbon dating analysis,
04:42and found that the mask was from the 19th century.
04:45After an investigation,
04:46the court announced that the couple had the right to appeal,
04:49and blocked the sale until the case was judged.
04:53In the 19th century,
04:54a chessboard containing ivory pieces of meticulously sculpted morse
04:58was discovered in the sand dunes of Lewis Island in Scotland.
05:02Five pieces were missing.
05:04Nearly two centuries later,
05:06a family from Edinburgh brought a chess piece
05:08to the auction house Sotheby's,
05:10stating that one of their ancestors had bought it long before.
05:14The grandfather in question had bought it in the 1960s for only 6 dollars.
05:18He had passed it on to his daughter.
05:20And although the family had no idea of the real value or importance of the piece,
05:25they had kept it in the house as a family heirloom.
05:29By examining it,
05:30Sotheby's team realized that it was a Lewis chess piece
05:34dating from the 12th or early 13th century,
05:37and being part of the famous incomplete game.
05:39The other Lewis chess pieces are now found in institutions
05:43such as the British Museum and the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.
05:48The complexity of the execution,
05:50the historical importance and the incredible travel of the piece
05:54have greatly contributed to its value.
05:56And it was sold at the auctions in London for more than 900,000 dollars.
06:00During an auction,
06:01a resident of the United Kingdom bought a diamond ring of 26 carats for 13 dollars.
06:06She was convinced to buy a fantasy jewel
06:09and wear it with disdain for about thirty years.
06:12One day, she decided to check with a local jeweler
06:16if the ring was worth more than its original price.
06:19The stone turned out to be a real diamond in the shape of a cushion,
06:22which probably belonged to a very rich person,
06:26probably a member of the royal family.
06:28In the 19th century,
06:30it was before the discovery of modern diamond mines,
06:32and there were very few of these stones in the world.
06:35Recognizing the diamond was not an easy thing,
06:37because it did not look like the sparkling jewels we are used to.
06:41This pretty stone had been cut for a candlelight,
06:45with an old mount,
06:47and it had darkened over time.
06:49The silver had also tarnished,
06:51and it was probably very dirty too.
06:53The ring was sold at Sotheby's auctions in London
06:56for nearly 850,000 dollars.
06:58Experts claim that its new owner
07:01will be able to carve the diamond to give it a more modern look,
07:05and that it will then be worth several times that amount.
07:07For a long time,
07:08a painting by the Florentine artist of the 13th century Simabu was unavailable.
07:13But in 2019,
07:15he made a surprise appearance in the comfortable house
07:18of an old lady living in the French countryside.
07:21The lady was about to sell her house
07:23and had invited an auctioneer
07:25to find out how much she could get for her goods.
07:28The auctioneer found that the painting in his kitchen
07:31was painted by a famous painter
07:34who had lived for several centuries.
07:36An expertise confirmed that it was an original
07:39from a series made in the 13th century,
07:42one of Simabu's eleven paintings
07:44kept in the world.
07:46An infrared analysis
07:47even revealed subtle corrections
07:49made by the artist during the creation process,
07:52doubly proving the authenticity of the work.
07:55The new owner paid more than 26 million dollars for the painting.