A forgotten 1956 Olympic torch, likely used as a wall lamp, sold for 1.4 million kronor this weekend. The seller — a woman from the local area — thought she had made a unique flea bargain. “She got a good feeling and came to us instead of posting it on Blocket or Tradera herself, and it worked,” says Staffan Milsten, appraiser at Stockholms auktionsverk Helsingborg.
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A forgotten 1956 Olympic torch, likely used as a wall lamp, sold for 1.4 million kronor this weekend. The seller — a woman from the local area — thought she had made a unique flea bargain. “She got a good feeling and came to us instead of posting it on Blocket or Tradera herself, and it worked,” says Staffan Milsten, appraiser at Stockholms auktionsverk Helsingborg.