Someone’s trash truly is another person’s treasure.
Blueprints for the original World Trade Center, which were rescued from the trash, are now on sale for $250,000, according to Fox News.
The blueprints originally belonged to one of the buildings’ architects, Joseph Solomon, who kept them as a keepsake. After Solomon died in 2017, his daughter, Amy Lee Solomon, cleaned out his Denver home and threw the plans in the trash.
“Denver-area resident Jake Haas found what he thought were antique maps in the trash and stopped to collect them,” Fox News reported. Haas soon realized what he had and sold the plans to a local Denver pawnshop owner, Angelo Arguello.
Arguello is selling the blueprints via James Cummins Bookseller in Manhattan this weekend at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair.
Meanwhile, Amy Lee Solomon is said to be “grateful her father’s contribution to a New York landmark is being acknowledged.” No word on whether or not she will get any proceeds from the sale.