Albrecht Dürer Engraving Destined for the Trash Sells for Thousands

Everyone's heard the idiom: "One man's trash is another man's treasure." But for Matt Winter, a 24-year-old from the small English town of Cranbrook, an unassuming etching destined for the waste bin just landed him $44,000 USD at auction. The artwork, Knight, Death and the Devil (1513-14), was recently deemed by experts as a museum-worthy original by the acclaimed German Renaissance painter Albrecht Dürer. Winter had originally obtained the engraving when he was 11 from a woman who was going to...