A battered storage box bought by a dad for £12 at a junk shop 40 years ago has sold for more than 600 TIMES that price after it turned out to be a rare Louis Vuitton.
The father purchased the vintage steamer trunk in 1984 for a pocket money amount which he then gave to his daughter as a gift as she was moving into her first flat.
He snapped up the trunk from a bric-a-brac shop in the village of St Margarets, near Twickenham, London, for his daughter Melissa to use as storage.
Melissa, who is just giving her first name, went on to keep sheets and linen in the trunk for decades before eventually realising its true value.
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