Posted on 06/07/2019 2:16:37 PM PDT by Red Badger
Philip Stapleton was perusing a thrift sale in the U.K. when he came across a painting he liked so much, he spent nearly $300 on it, even though he assumed it was fake. But after doing some research and talking to experts, the 52-year-old antique collector may have made the purchase of a lifetime – an original work by Pablo Picasso.
Stapleton said that he spent 230 British pounds ($293), even though he believed to be fake because he "loved the picture," SWNS reports. Acting on a whim, Stapleton took it Brighton and Hove Auction House, where he received the potentially good news.
“It is so exciting - one of our regular buyers came into the auction house with what he felt was a picture that had Picasso on it - he didn’t know that it was anything special," Brighton and Hove Auctions general manager Rosie May said in comments obtained by SWNS.
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Looks like a girl I dated.
Bill Clinton pulled this stunt too.
“Marc Chagall was famous for writing checks for nearly everything he bought. Many of the recipients would never cash the checks and just keep it as a souvenir.”
Years ago in England I bought a wardrobe at auction and it had a bunch of old German porcelain doll heads in it. When I left England I sold the wardrobe at the same auction house. The man that bought it paid several times the price of the wardrobes worth. The doll heads were still in the wardrobe. I thought they were of no value. I turned to my wife and said, “why did he pay so much for that?”
I am an antique dealer today in retirement. Today I realized I gave away several thousand dollars. Such is life. But what the hell. I received 3 times what I paid for the wardrobe. I suspect he just took the doll heads and told the auction house to sell the wardrobe at the next auction.
“Looks like a girl I dated”
She got around a lot.
***an original work by Pablo Picasso. ***
“IT’S A FAKE!”-Picasso
“But maestro, I saw you paint it in your studio!”-Friend
“EVEN I CAN PAINT A FAKE PICASSO!”-Picasso
I have two favorites from ARS. One was a guy that bought a house and when he was cleaning out the basement there some some kind of metal thing stuck in the rafters. It turned out to be some kind of battle helmet 500+ years old. The other was a guy who bought a cheap small painting of the Titanic and tucked in the back was an actual lunch menu from the fateful voyage.
You see boobs?
My favorite also. The Keno twins were the appraisers, and a subsequent episode showed the actual Sotheby’s auction. I guess I liked it so much because she was such a sweetheart.
Watch out for things that look like a bunch of junk.
When people help you move or fix up your apartment for free, they traditionally ask for something to take with them.
One person asked for my huge jar of beach glass. Of course it looked like a bunch of garbage but it represented many happy hours of beachcombing on Fire Island over many summers. Probably worth a bunch too.
Someone else asked for an old toy of my daughter’s, one of the early Casio keyboards for kids. I said oh sure. After I said yes, he told me it was worth a fortune.
Kids’ books by famous people should be snapped up in quantity and kept pristine, because the kids ruin 99 percent of them and condition is everything. Get it autographed and your grandkids are set for life.
Then in the 1970s-1980s, this guy bought a house in a rural area that was owned years ago by a rather successful person. The new owner of the house, bought the contents of the house, though most items were your regular chairs and the like. When he was cleaning out the attic, he found a Parker Bros box with the Invincible inside it. He sold it at auction for several hundred thousand dollars. Every decade or so, the shotgun shows up at auction again and is always purchased by "an un-named person." The last time I saw it up for auction it went for several million dollars. I think several other examples have shown up since that first find, but still.
So did my daughter. Hers were generally better than his, too.
“Kids’ books by famous people should be snapped up in quantity and kept pristine, because the kids ruin 99 percent of them and condition is everything. Get it autographed and your grandkids are set for life.”
I sell a lot of kids books in our store. They go out as soon as I get them in. It is mostly nostalgia for those adults that grew up reading them as myself. Unfortunately none of them have been autographed by the writer. If they were autographed they would go to auction at great profit.
I wish I had all my old DC comic books from my childhood in the 50s and 60s. Some of them are worth a great deal of money today. Some were first edition. Back then I did not know what a first edition was. If it was new I bought for pennies. Actually my parents bought it for me. I would pick a few comics off the rack and take them to my parents for purchase. Back then all of us kids had stacks and would trade them back and forth for comics we had not read. They had little value then. If I had of only known what they would be worth today.
“Sacre Bleue” If you read the comic books back then you know what I said.
You mean before he’s dragged into court?
I know there were horror comic books out there, which eventually got banned. We were not allowed to buy those, and we really didn’t want to.
However, those banned comic books are probably worth a fortune today.
I had lot of Archie comics until very recently. My daughter devoured them. I even tripped over a box of them and dislocated my shoulder. I found they were almost worthless and gave them away, but they too will probably be valuable someday.
My treasure is a Little Lulu. I paid $9 for it years ago at a comic convention. Little Lulu was my favorite. It says “still 10c” on the cover. She is showing two boys how to build a building in a sandbox and is holding a blueprint in her hand. That makes it sound modern. Somebody tell me it is worth a ton of money because it is “women’s lib.”
By the way, I know why a certain issue of Evergreen Review caused such an uproar. Yes, it was porn for those days (1960s), but it also showed a beautiful black man and a beautiful white woman naked together in the woods.
I know because I was at Praeger at the time, which was one flight below (I think) Grove Press (and one flight above a Shoprite), on University Place, and someone brought it down to show it to us. It’s funny that all the talk was about the porn aspect and nothing about the racial aspect, which was the real reason for all the fuss. Talk about collector’s items!
Thanks Red Badger.
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