It makes you wonder what treasures are lurking in attics, cupboards and drawers up and down the land.
A book left outside the Oxfam Bookshop in Oxford has turned out to be a Graham Greene novel worth £15,000.
And how marvellous that the windfall will not end up in someone's pocket, but will be put to good use in some of the world's many troublespots.
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