Banksy mural that could fetch $300,000 'almost got painted over'

Eytan Rosenberg had no idea that the man he let paint a mural on the side of his family’s Hollywood petrol station was the darling of the art world.

Banksy mural that could fetch $300,000 'almost got painted over'

Eytan Rosenberg had no idea that the man he let paint a mural on the side of his family’s Hollywood petrol station was the darling of the art world.

He had never even heard of Banksy, when the elusive British street artist stencilled 'Flower Girl'on the brick wall of the station in 2008.

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