antiques roadshow
when someone finds out that the painting they bought for 100 bucks at the thrift store is really worth 50-70k, what do they do with it? why is it so exciting? are they validated that their investment was a good one? are they gonna run out and sell it for the cash?wonder if any of my investments will ever pay off like that? don't know if i could ever part with any of my pieces, though.
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posted by bls @ 8:22 PM
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I have a painting I found in the street one Sunday afternoon in a pile of junk just before it started raining heavily (i.e. it would have been ruined if I'd left it there anyway, but it was in a pile of junk, left out for roadside collection - not like the Pink Floyd albums I once picked up in the street which I later decided were probably part of some house moving enterprise - oops). It looks to my untutored eye to be a 19th century landscape that some child has later experimented with, painting boats out of perspective on the sea. But I love it. But I do wonder if it's worth billions. Probably is.
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