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1 posted on 09/01/2010 10:45:35 AM PDT by greatdefender
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Steady gaze News service Bloomberg reported that Haggerty would have made $25,000 if the painting was sold.

$25K can buy a lot of beer. Whadda dummy.

2 posted on 09/01/2010 10:51:11 AM PDT by library user
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” A London dealer, Offer Waterman, had been interested in buying the picture, Bloomberg cited the complaint as saying. “

Looks like Waterman made Haggarty an “Offer” he couldn’t refuse....


3 posted on 09/01/2010 10:51:25 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (((.Go troops! " Vote out RINOS. They screw you EVERY time" Jim Robinson)
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Never understood the fascination with art, even though all I did as a kid was draw.


4 posted on 09/01/2010 10:52:06 AM PDT by wastedyears (Iron Maiden's new album in the top 5 in the US. Incredible)
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5 posted on 09/01/2010 10:54:10 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (I want IMPROVEMENT, not just CHANGE.)
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Same thing happened to my Monet. Damn 2 for 1 margarita specials.


8 posted on 09/01/2010 10:59:15 AM PDT by November 2010
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11 posted on 09/01/2010 11:06:37 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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Happens to me all the time. Its why my art collection is so threadbare.


14 posted on 09/01/2010 11:16:37 AM PDT by equalitybeforethelaw
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I lost my priceless painting of “Dogs Playing Poker” that way.


16 posted on 09/01/2010 11:26:06 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: nickcarraway; AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; blueyon; ...

Obviously he should have been entrusted with a Jackson Pollock work. If he’d have puked on it, no one would even have noticed. And no one would have stolen it either way.


19 posted on 09/01/2010 6:14:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
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UPDATE:

Owner in drunkenly lost $1.35M painting fiasco drops suit as co-owner is unmasked as con artist

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/09/01/2010-09-01_owner_in_drunkenly_lost_135m_painting_fiasco_drops_suit_as_coowner_is_unmasked_a.html#ixzz0yNxbzVWO


22 posted on 09/02/2010 8:23:16 AM PDT by greatdefender (If You Want Peace.....Prepare For War)
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