Collector Finds Unseen Charlie Chaplin Film In Tin Sold For £3.20 On eBay

Posted by admin on Nov 6, 2009

Morace Park was footling around on eBay looking for antiques when he stumbled on an item that was listed casually as an “old film” – and even then he was really more interested in the tin it was in.

“It had a lovely look to it,” said Park. But the contents of the battered container, which he bought for the princely sum of £3.20, have turned out to be a previously unknown film by Charlie Chaplin.

Park – who, when he is not buying and selling antiques as a hobby, runs a company that develops products with inventors – bought the film “from someone else who deals in bits and bobs”. When his parcel arrived, he didn’t even bother to open it for a while. But when he did, he unfurled a little of the film and saw the title: Charlie Chaplin in Zepped. “I Googled it,” he said, “and then my interest was pricked. I couldn’t find any sign of it on the internet.”

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