World. Photos.

On the Internet-auction Ebay you can buy all that you want – from a box of matches up to islands. But sometimes something bought for the small sum is possible to sell at the same place for huge money.
Such history has occurred this summer. One of the auction users with the name Petere92346 has decided to sell a bottle of beer. But it was not the ordinary beer, it was the ALLSOPP’s ARCTIC ALE. It has been produced in 1852 by the legendary English Allsopp which has stopped its existence in the middle of 20-th century. The bottle was sealed and had a label signed by a hand of the brewer. The seller, most likely, did not even assume provisional cost of this bottle, therefore has thoughtlessly concerned to the description, having written only few sentences and having attached two photos.
But his biggest mistake was wrong writing of the manufacturer’s name. He wrote “Allsop”, having passed the letter “p” in the end of the word. That’s why potential buyers-collectors could not find this bottle in the search on the auction page. Finally, on the 21-st of June this year the user with the name Collectordan has bought this bottle for 304 dollars.

The history could end on it, if the enterprising new bottle’s owner has not exposed it repeatedly on sale with correct description, with a lot of photos and, the most important, with the correct name.
As a result in August 12-th he has sold this bottle for …. 503 300 dollars. Is it the American dream? May be. And may be not. As for me, I skeptically think about the fact that someone can receive half a million dollars so easy. But who knows, miracles happen.

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