“My father-in-law passed away and we found this when cleaning out his house,” wrote Roger Von Deylen to the column regarding a Chinese bowl he and husband Tim Wojtala inherited.

Wojtala ’s father also had a collection of wind-up toys and slot machines, Von Deylen explained. When he was alive and still working, the father-in-law would travel to China, when and where the couple assume he acquired the bowl Von Deylen brought in for appraisal.

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