Antique Shop facts
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Stalin's Granddaughter is a Buddhist that runs an antique shop in Portland, Oregon
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In 2009 a Hungarian art historian, while watching the movie Stuart Little with his daughter, spotted a long-lost avant-garde painting in the background. The painting was bought by a set designer in a Pasadena antiques shop for "next to nothing", and later sold for $285,700 at an auction.
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A hidden tributary of London's river Thames called the Tyburn has a short exposed stretch running through an antiques shop. There are golden fish living in the stream.
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Joseph Stalin's granddaughter runs an antique shop in Portland, Oregon
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The oldest existing photograph of a US President was discovered when it was bought for 50 cents in an antique shop
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The movie Stuart Little had a long-lost Hungarian painting hanging in the background. The masterpiece was lost before WWII, and was discovered in 2009 when an art historian watched Stuart Little with his daughter. The film's set designer had found the painting at an antiques shop in California.
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The lyrics and inspiration for Beatles song "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" were pulled straight from a poster that John Lennon had purchased from an antique shop in 1967.
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Joseph Stalin has a living granddaughter in Portland who owns an antique shop.
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In 1954 in the acclaimed BBC film "1984", Peter Cushing played Winston, who in a totalitarian dictatorship visited an antiques shop. His last major role before he died was in 1984, where in a totalitarian dictatorship he was the proprietor of an antiques shop in the comedy film "Top Secret!"
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Mr. Kite was an actual circus performer and John Lennon lifted, almost verbatim, the lyrics of "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite" from a Victorian circus poster he bought at an antique shop.
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The granddaughter of Joseph Stalin is an antique shop running Buddhist in Portland, Oregon.
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Joseph Stalin's granddaughter is as “American as apple pie.” She lives in Portland, Oregon, has tattoos and owns a small antique shop.
"Until 1947, the Egyptian Museum sold genuine antiquities from its gift shop." - source
