About 30 years after a London taxi driver paid £40 for an old painting at a car boot sale, experts linked it to 19th-century Amritsar and the work sold for £75,000 at a 2016 auction

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• A London taxi driver bought a painting for £40 at a car boot sale about 30 years before it was identified as a significant Indian artwork.
• The painting sold for £75,000, excluding buyer's premium, at Roseberys in London on April 15, 2016, far above its £500 to £1,000 estimate.