Another Collector Saves Rare Artifact

The delicate Greek myrtle wreath, which
is thought to date to 300BC,
was found in a tatty cardboard box

Valuers from an auctioneer went to visit an English pensioner to look at some items he had inherited from his grandfather who was a great collector who was fascinated by archaeology and the ancient world. They were astonished to find that one of the items they were shown was a gold wreath from Antiquity which the collector had likely bought sometime in the 1940s when he travelled extensively.

The man said: 'I knew my grandfather travelled extensively in the 1940s and 50s and he spent time in the north west frontier area, where Alexander the Great was, so it's possible he got it while he was there. 'But he never told me anything about this wreath.

Very probably, the fact that the collector bought this items from its finders saved it from being melted down. The object will be sold in June and is expected to reach up to 200 0000 pounds.