Chair purchased on Facebook Marketplace for $50 sells at auction for $85,000

Soft leather chair
Soft leather chair Photo credit Getty Images/iv-serg

Justin Miller is a very, very happy gentleman with an incredible eye for furniture.

The Los Angeles resident spotted a rather nice chair available for purchase on Facebook Marketplace for just $50, so he snatched it up pretty quick.

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Later, that very chair was sold in a Sotheby’s auction, where it garnered a final bid of $85,000!

According to BoingBoing.net, the chair is from 1935, and was described by Sotheby’s as a "Rare High-back Wing Chair" from Danish furniture designer Frits Henningsen.

It was only estimated to sell for between $30,000 and $50,000.

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