"Something" weighing 22 kilograms was put up for sale by a resident of St. Petersburg Igor.
In the description of an object of unknown purpose, the seller wrote:
In any case, the owner writes, this is some kind of ancient "artifact" or "rarity" that exists in a single copy.
During the time that the lot is among the ads, its owner receives several hundred responses a day - from mocking comments on the site to phone calls with unexpected offers, right up to “promoting the product” abroad.
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There are also those who want to buy goods, but not for 10 million rubles. More than 25 thousand have not yet been offered, the owner of the artifact told the correspondent of the newspaper "Metro". And he admitted that for him it was not about money at all, he did not expect to sell his find for such a sum.
The St. Petersburg resident says that he wanted to have fun himself and to amuse people. Therefore, he tries to answer everyone, even those who call names and insult him.
And most importantly, he himself really wants to know what it is he found walled up in the meter-thick wall of his house.
Those who responded offer a lot of versions of the true essence of the find, some of which are very interesting. For example, that it is a balancer for adjusting the wheels of carriages, similar to the modern wheel alignment check system.
In any case, such a large weight of the object with its relatively small dimensions is surprising: 29x29x15cm. At the end of the conversation with the journalist, Igor said honestly that he himself considers 99 percent of his find to be "junk", but he still does not rule out a small chance that this is a really rare thing, and sooner or later she will find an explanation and a true price.