The owner of a painting called "Magnolias on Gold Velvet Cloth" by 19th-century American painter Martin Johnson Heade originally bought it — along with some furniture — for " next to nothing" and would have remained ignorant of the painting's value had he not played a board game about art called Masterpiece that featured a similar print.

Before his discovery, the owner had hung the still life over a hole in his wall; in 1999, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston paid him $1.25 million for it.