Results: Treasures worth millions found in old homes (section 1)

As legend has it, while the Titanic was sinking beneath the sea during its maiden voyage, the band played "Nearer, My God, To Thee." Bandmaster Wallace Hartley's rosewood violin, on which those last mournful notes were played, according to accounts by survivors, had been an engagement gift from his fiancé, Maria Robinson. The instrument was presumably returned to her after it was recovered floating atop his life jacket. In 2006, Hartley's violin resurfaced, still in its initialed leather case, when a man was cleaning his deceased mother's attic. His mother's violin teacher apparently found the instrument at the Salvation Army in Bridlington, on the east coast of Yorkshire. Even though it was rendered unplayable due to saltwater damage, the violin sold at auction for more than $1.7 million in 2013. Are you familiar with these facts about this violin from the Titanic?

In his grandfather's attic in Defiance, Ohio, Karl Kissner came across a collection of nearly 700 baseball cards estimated to be worth about $3 million. The turn-of-the-century collection, discovered in a green cardboard box under a dollhouse, included rare cards of legendary players Ty Cobb, Cy Young and Connie Mack, as well as the only pristine Honus Wagner card found to date. The collection, left to Kissner and 19 cousins, and known as the "Black Swamp find" because of Defiance's damp climate, is being auctioned off in small lots over time. The first lot, featuring 37 of the best cards in the collection, went for $566,132 in 2012. Some of the cards can be found today on eBay. Do you own any old baseball cards that could be worth quite a bit of money?

Blair Pitre, a general contractor in the Canadian province of Alberta, found more than 360 well-preserved movie posters from the late 1920s and early '30s behind the walls of the century-old home he'd just purchased to renovate. The posters were apparently used as insulation, but the previous owner was said to be the granddaughter of an early 20th-century movie theater owner. About 40 pieces of memorabilia from the collection fetched about $50,000 at auction in 2010. The biggest seller was a half-page insert for the 1929 film "Bulldog Drummond," starring Ronald Colman (brought Pitre almost $9,000). He had planned to apply the proceeds toward restoration costs of the home. Do you have any old movie posters that could be worth some money?

Contractors breaking through a wall on the second floor of a luxury 3-story condominium in New York's trendy Tribeca neighborhood uncovered a massive black-and-white mural by pop artist Keith Haring. The artist created it as a student in the 1970s, when the building was used as exhibition space by the School of Visual Arts. The mural, drawn with shoe polish and rubbing alcohol, is valued at $1 million today, but it's too fragile to be removed. It does, however, raise the property's worth. The 8,000-square-foot condo was recently listed for $14 million, but was since lowered to $11.995 million. Are you familiar with the pop artist Keith Haring?