Nearly Beyond Price

Who could fail, on reading this, to feel pride in our island's culture? A man paid £5,000 for the privilege of clearing out an American woman's Mayfair flat, and discovered two embroideries which he displayed at his Bermondsey warehouse and which he was prepared to let go for £400. The sale did not go through and the finder took the embroideries to an expert, who identified them as being probably mediaeval and therefore possibly worth millions. All this occurred nearly a decade and a half ago; it is still not known what the embroideries look like or where they came from; and the only reason we are hearing about it now is because of a court case between the finder and the expert over whether the latter should be paid for his efforts. Makes you proud.

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What a Blinder