Going Once, Going Twice.Got a masterpiece hidden under all the junk in your attic? Angelenos who think they might can hustle hus·tle v. hus·tled, hus·tling, hus·tles v.tr. 1. To jostle or shove roughly. 2. To convey in a hurried or rough manner: hustled the prisoner into a van. over to Sotheby's in Beverly Hills Beverly Hills, city (1990 pop. 31,971), Los Angeles co., S Calif., completely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles; inc. 1914. The largely residential city is home to many motion-picture and television personalities. on June 10 to get a free appraisal and even put their stuff on the cyber-block in an auction being billed as the First Internet Heirloom Discovery Day. "It's like winning the lottery lottery, scheme for distributing prizes by lot or other method of chance selection to persons who have paid for the opportunity to win. The term is not applicable when lots are drawn without payment by the interested parties to determine some matter, e.g. and never having to buy a ticket," said Chris Jussel, a Sotheby's vice, president and host of the popular public-TV program "Antiques Roadshow Antiques Roadshow is a British human interest television show in which antiques appraisers travel to various regions of the United Kingdom and appraise antiques brought in by local residents. It has been running since 1979. ." Think your chances of finding something valuable are slim? Then consider the guy who found an original copy of the Declaration of Independence behind a framed picture he bought for $6 at a garage sale. Sotheby's is also auctioning off that discovery, which is expected to fetch somewhere between $4 million and $6 million. |
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