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Charity shopper finds Marvin Gaye's passport in 50 cent vinyl
Item now valued at $20,000
Shopping for marked down vinyl in charity shops and at car boot sales can be a bit of a lottery, however one lucky shopper hit the jackpot when he happened upon Marvin Gaye's passport in a vinyl that cost him just 50 cents..
Featured on the latest edition of America's version of the Antiques Roadshow, the man described how he found the item after buying vinyl from members of a deceased Motown muscians family. The passport has now been valued at over $20,000, and is something of a collectors item.
“It came to me by pure accident… after a Motown musician had passed, we had gone to their house to pick up some items that the family wanted to donate to [Motown] museum, and they had said, ‘Is there anything else you wanted? Because otherwise, it’s going to be in the estate sale this weekend.”
After first buying nothing from the sale, the returned and purchased a stack of records valued at 50 cents each. “When I got home, I was going through them and out of an album fell this passport. And so it literally fell into my hands.”
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