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10. Every now and then I hear a fantasy-come-true story

My friends at Heritage Auctions in Dallas have seen most everything.

I know nothing about old manuscripts or books, but they said they once got a call from some penniless Iraq vet in Ohio somewhere. He had bought some interesting pamphlet/book at a garage sale for $8 and a friend had told him it might be really valuable. Knowing no one locally who could tell him, he contacted Heritage, who has a department for that kind of thing.

Long story short, it turned out to be an original copy of the Federalist Papers from 1800, and worth a lot. They auctioned it off for him, and it brought something like $80,000. When they heard the guy didn't have a penny to his name, they waived the seller's fee, and paid him out the whole hammer price.