Millions for Paintings behind the Door
Miss Jean Preston, a British librarian and expert in historic manuscripts working in a California museum in the 1960s, saw two paintings in a box of odds and ends, liked them and convinced her father to buy them. He paid about $500. In 1974 when he died, she inherited them--valued then at $760. She hung the 5-inch by 15-inch paintings, each of a saint in medieval clothing, on the back of her bedroom door in…
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