On the upper floor of the British Museum, in a gallery containing early medieval artifacts, most visitors will congregate around the swords, helmets, drinking horns and lyres. To a few, however ...

A British Woman Bought a Brooch for 20 Pounds. It Sold for Nearly £10,000. Flora Steel, an art historian living in Rome, bought the brooch 36 years ago at an antiques fair.

A British Woman Bought a Brooch for About $35. ... (The original sketches of those pieces are at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.) The brooch formerly owned by Steel, ...