Happy surprise for a Parisian family who left the capital to spend the period of confinement in the green, in their family home located near Vendôme (Loir-et-Cher). To pass the time, two children decided to build a cabin. As our colleagues report from The New Republic, they discovered a real treasure by searching the house: two gold bars, hidden in old sheets.
He thinks of simple “knife holders”
The two children asked their father what they could use to build their cabin. “He advises them to take their grandmother’s sheets from an unused room. But instead of finding sprigs of lavender between the sheets, as was done before, these are two fairly heavy objects that fall ”, tell the microphone of BFMTV Philippe Rouillac, auctioneer at Vendôme.
Vendômois: gold bars were sleeping between the sheets! https://t.co/BDx0Onx3ml
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At first, the retiree thinks that these are simple knife holders that belonged to his mother. To get to the bottom of it, the sixty-year-old makes an appointment at the auction house to have the mysterious objects appraised.
“We will be able to have a swimming pool!” “
He took it well: it was actually two solid gold bars, one kilogram each, and whose value is now estimated at more than € 100,000. “The children said to their father: we are going to be able to have a swimming pool!” “, remembers Philippe Rouillac.
The two ingots were acquired in 1967 by the mother of the owner of the object, as evidenced by the official certificate of purchase found nearby. They will be offered at auction on June 16 by the house Rouillac, in Vendôme.
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