Posted on 04/13/2022 9:01:33 AM PDT by rktman
After finding a dumpster full of unwanted "car parts," a Connecticut car mechanic traded a great story and a little elbow grease for an opportunity to save the work of a historic artist and earn an incredible windfall to boot.
In September 2017, Jared Whipple, a mechanic from Waterbury, Connecticut, got a call from a friend telling him of a strange find in an abandoned barn in Watertown. Whipple's pal saw the dumpster of "car parts" and instantly thought Whipple would like to have them, the Connecticut Post reported Friday.
When the amiable mechanic arrived on the scene, he found not steel and plastic car parts but images of car parts painted onto huge canvases. There was one after another, some tattered and covered in grime from being discarded but all still brightly colored and full of graphic panache.
Whipple found a dumpster full of 6-foot-tall canvases featuring paintings of gleaming chromes, mag wheels, stretching pipes and wild, graphic images in eye-popping colors of blues, reds and yellows.
But what did he have, he wondered. Whipple immediately started looking on the internet to see if he could identify who painted the amazing canvases. And it wasn't long before he learned that the paintings were crafted by Washington-born artist Francis Hines, who died in 2016 at age 96.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
> a friend telling him of a strange find in an abandoned barn ... <
The barn might have been abandoned, but I’m guessing that someone still owns the property, and everything on it. Put that stuff back, Mr. Whipple!
Nice “barn find” in a dumpster. I wish I could get a call like that. Good for him, to preserve the artist’s work.
I met an electrician in a line to enter an estate sale. He made a habit of going to them, because people would have things on sale he could use in his business at a fraction of what he would pay otherwise.
Didn’t read the article, did you.
‘The lucky mechanic built a large amount of research on the artist and even began contacting the master’s friends and family. Eventually, he found Hines’ sons, who gave him their blessing to keep their father’s work.’
Especially obsolete circuitbreakers
I have bought some of my best hand tools at estate sales. Especially if it is the second day of a two day sale. The company contracted only gets a commission on the things they actually sell. So, on the last day they are really motivated to get rid of anything no matter what price you offer them.
The other thing is old tools from the 1950s are made so much better than stuff today.
“Didn’t read the article, did you.”
What, and break 25 years of FR tradition?
> Didn’t read the article, did you. <
Of course not. Instead I followed Free Republic tradition. Once you’ve been here for five years, you need only read the excerpt before commenting. And once you’ve been here for ten years, you need only glance at the title first.
In the article there are a couple pics.
LOL. I found some nice abandoned computers and cash in my neighbor’s apartment. He wasn’t home at the time, but I wonder why he didn’t want them?
“I found some nice abandoned computers and cash in my neighbor’s apartment. He wasn’t home at the time, but I wonder why he didn’t want them?”
Gotta ask - what were you doing there when he wasn’t home?
Forget post #13. I just got the joke. (doh!)
Mr. Whipple says: Please don’t squeeze the Charmin’
(a TV commercial from over 50 years ago)
At twenty years, you can just post random thoughts irrespective of the article.
At 25 years you can just mumble incoherently and then run for president.
This somewhat reminds me of the story of a guy who found boxes and boxes of either Disney or Warner Bros or Hanna-Barbera animation cels in whichever’s dumpster. This could have happened 20-25 years ago, I can’t recall. He gathered them all up and began selling them probably on ebay. These cels go for more than trivial money, and after he had sold maybe $350K worth, either Disney or Warners sued him for theft...as if had broken into their building(s) and stole the stuff. And he had to go through a very lengthy and obviously costly lawsuit defending himself. It was a multi-year and multi-hundred thousand dollar effort on his part.
After 15 years you only have to read the title before making comment.
And NEVER spell check
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