An old photo discovered in an antiques store was sold for a measly $2.<\/p>\n
Randy Guijarro actually bought three old photos from the collectables store in Fresno County, California.<\/p>\n
However, little did he realize that one of the photos featured a rarely-pictured folklore legend and was worth millions.<\/p>\n
READ MORE! Sunken ship discovered with estimated $20bn worth of treasure on board<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n It reminds us of the time a woman bought a super-rare painting<\/a> for $4, only to discover it was worth a massive six figures.<\/p>\n Then there was the extremely rare vintage Rolex<\/a> that was found in a drawer that, when restored, was worth a whopping six figures.<\/p>\n <\/a>kagins.com<\/p>\n \u201cI really just liked the looks of [it]. It\u2019s 4 x 5 inches, it\u2019s a tintype, and it\u2019s a country scene,\u201d Guijarro told National Geographic<\/a>.<\/p>\n But, upon closer inspection, Guijarro realized one of the photos was of infamous outlaw, Billy the Kid, along with four of his gang members, and his girlfriend.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not till [I] put it under a magnifying glass [that I thought], \u2018Oh my, what have we got going on here?’\u201d<\/p>\n <\/a>The Fresno Bee<\/p>\n Guijarro and his wife Linda spent several years researching and trying to find evidence to prove the photo\u2019s authenticity.<\/p>\n \u201cIt took us a year [of] initial research, reading up and getting up to speed. Linda and I became authenticators and historians by default,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe spent the next four years solid going at this, traveling throughout the Southwest, calling people, going to Western shows, talking to experts. <\/p>\n \u201cA lot of people dismissed it out of hand because it\u2019s too unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/a>InfoForum<\/p>\n However, the couple\u2019s hard work paid off when auction house, Kagin\u2019s, was able to authenticate the piece.<\/p>\n In a rare turn of events, the couple somehow had managed to get hold of one of only two known photos of the gunfighter.<\/p>\n The auction house insured the rare photo for $5 million.<\/p>\n <\/a>Sante Fe Private Tours<\/p>\n However, there are some experts who aren\u2019t convinced the photo is really of Billy the Kid.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are a few of these so-called experts, and I\u2019ve actually talked to them. I said, you\u2019ve asked me to do these things, [I] went out and did them,\u201d Guijarro said<\/p>\n \u201cI lay out physical proof, I get nothing back. So, I don\u2019t even like to give credence to their names anymore. They\u2019re going to become people that will have just faded off into history.\u201d<\/p>\n There\u2019s only one authentic photo of Billy the Kid \u2013 real name, Henry McCarty.<\/p>\n Back in 2011, businessman William Koch bought the prized photo for $2.3 million at an auction in Denver.<\/p>\n The post Man who bought old photo for $2 discovers its true multi-million value<\/a> appeared first on Supercar Blondie<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An old photo discovered in an antiques store was sold for a measly $2. Randy Guijarro actually bought three old photos from the collectables store in Fresno County, California. However, little did he realize that one of the photos featured a rarely-pictured folklore legend and was worth millions. READ MORE! Sunken ship discovered with estimated …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":43684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}