11 Old Figurines That Are Secretly Worth A Fortune (You Might Own One)

A Hummel of a girl leaning on a fence sold for $6,490. From the front, it looks like every other one. The difference is a fourth post in the fence, and it's on the piece, not in the price guide. This video counts down eleven old figurines that carry real money, ordered from the ones almost nobody owns to the one sitting in millions of American homes. Meissen and the crossed swords that sit under the glaze. Dresden lace, and why almost none of it survives intact. Royal Worcester's Doughty birds. Herend and the painter's initials. Toby jugs. Boehm. Staffordshire, where the check is the back of the figure and not the base. Royal Dux, Capodimonte, Royal Doulton character jugs, and Hummel last. Every slot gives you the mark, the era rule, and what separates the piece worth a few dollars from the one worth thousands. The final section covers what to do when there's no mark at all, and the three things that destroy value before a piece ever reaches an auction room: cleaning it, gluing it, and letting it go out the door in a box lot.