A hunk of what? Worth how much?!

It was certainly a departure from Christmas fruitcake. In December, Dorothy Ferreira of Montauk, N.Y., opened a package from her 82-year-old sister in Iowa to find an ungainly object that looked like a gnarled, funky candle. Her sister said it was just some strange thing she found on a Long Island beach 50 years ago. But it turns out it could be a hunk of petrified whale vomit worth as much as $18,000. Walter Galcik, a Montauk resident who inspected the object, says it might be ambergris--a...

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