On last night’s Antiques Roadshow, here in the UK, it featured a piece with me talking to a lady about a photograph that her husband had bought that was amongst a mixed box of odds and ends at an auction. When he got the box home he found, on closer inspection, that the old school photo included a very young Winston Churchill, which means it was worth over £100; a lot more than he paid for the whole box.
This morning I read this in an American newspaper, online. “Bill Epping combed through a box of old pictures marked "Instant Relatives" at a booth at the Urbana Antique Show and Flea Market on Sunday, 8 February. In an instant, there it was — a century-old, sepia-tinged photograph of one of Epping's relatives, Anna Mary Fitzmaurice-Witt. Fitzmaurice-Witt is Epping's great-aunt, one of his grandfather's 10 siblings. He believes she was born in the 1860s. "In 35 years of going to flea markets, I found my relative," he said.
It just goes to prove it’s worth looking through those boxes of old photographs; you never know who you might recognize.
