Woman Nearly Junks $400,000 Treasure.

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An auctioneer's curiosity earned an Asheville woman nearly $400,000.
The woman was trying to get rid of an old painting she had inherited. She was willing to sell it for $100. She took it to Johnny Penland, of Tommy Tuten and Johnny Penland Auctions.
He asked her to let him check into the painting's history, and consulted with Christie's auction house in New York. An expert there identified it as the work of Dutch Baroque artist Jan Havicksz Steen. It brought almost $397,000 at auction on Thursday.
The painting shows children playing a game on a winter landscape. It was probably painted around 1660.

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