淘到寶! 10英鎊地攤貨竟是價值35萬英鎊的真鑽!
A diamond ring bought for 10 pounds at a car-boot sale 30 years ago is expected to fetch 350,000 pounds at auction.
在30年前的一場甩賣會上以10英鎊買入的一枚鑽石戒指，現如今有望在拍賣會上以35萬英鎊成交。The owner believed the "exceptionally sized" stone was a piece of costume jewellery when she bought it at West Middlesex Hospital in Isleworth, west London, in the 1980s.
20世紀80年代，當該鑽戒的主人在倫敦西部艾爾沃斯鎮的西米德爾塞克斯醫院購買來這塊“體積巨大”的石頭時，以爲它只是一件裝飾品。Unaware it was a 26 carat, cushion-shaped white diamond from the 19th Century, she wore it daily for decades.
在不知道這是一顆19世紀的26克拉、墊狀的白色鑽石的情形下，她每天都將其戴在手上，就這樣過了幾十年。
The stone goes under the hammer at Sotheby's in July. The head of the auction house's London jewellery department, Jessica Wyndham, said: "The owner would wear it out shopping, wear it day-to-day. It's a good looking ring.
這枚鑽石將於7月份在蘇富比拍賣。該拍賣行的倫敦珠寶部門負責人傑西卡·溫德姆表示：“鑽石主人會戴着它上街購物，每天都戴着。這是一枚很好看的戒指。”"But it was bought as a costume jewel. No-one had any idea it had any intrinsic value at all. This is a one-off windfall, an amazing find."
“但它是作爲一個裝飾寶石而被買下的。根本沒有人知道它的任何本質價值，還樂在其中。這是一次意外收穫，一次讓人驚喜的發現。”After about 30 years of wearing the ring, the owners took it to Sotheby's when a jeweller told them it may be valuable.
在戴了30年後，一位珠寶商告訴戒指的主人它可能很有價值，於是他們就把它帶到了蘇富比。"They came in with the idea that it might be real and they had no idea of its value," Ms Wyndham said.
溫德姆稱：“他們認爲這可能是真鑽石，但他們不知道它的價值。”"We had a look and... got it tested at the Gemological Institute of America. The majority of us can't even begin to dream of owning a diamond that large," she added.
她補充說道：“我們看了一眼，然後在美國寶石學會進行了測試。我們大多數人甚至夢想不到自己能擁有那麼大顆的鑽石。”
