Posted on 12/05/2004 11:14:11 AM PST by Lijahsbubbe
We have a large painting in our dining room painted in 1906 by a not so well know French impressionist. I hope that it is worth a lot someday.
There are people with metal detectors who would "Kill" for a copy of your map.If I lived in your state I know I would want one!
"We have a large painting in our dining room painted in 1906 by a not so well know French impressionist. I hope that it is worth a lot someday."
Which impressionist?
Maurice Taquaq. There is a museum I think a war museum in Paris with a lot of his work. He painted a lot of horses. Our painting is of 2 large gray dappled horses and 4 men standing in front of some barns. It is quite beautiful.
That really stinks. I was thinking about how much of the million or so they would get to actually keep when I first read the articles.
This tax system is sinful!
Be willing to bet it's worth more than you think! Have you done any research on it?
That is a real treasure. I love stories like yours.
Thank you!
I told you a million times....stop exaggerating!
I bought an abstract screenprint about a year ago at my local thrift shop for $7 that I just discovered is a Mondrian worth $2000! Not a bad return on a 7 buck investment!
Nice painting. I love that happy little tree off to the left there...
Art Lotto winner!
I found one in a museum that was listed in the "Rare Civil War Map" section but I was told it was only worth about $500. Something doesn't sound right about that to me. That's as far as I've researched it though.
What about the roll-your-own cigarettes. My grandpa never bought a store bought cigarette in his life. He was rolling his own right up until he died at 92. He was born in 1902 and probably started smoking when he was 8. :-) I've never smoked so I don't have a clue when cigarettes came into existance. Most of the shows I've watched about the war showed cigars though so you're probably right.
All I have to do is start talking and they wouldn't believe that. LOL Seriously though, there has been speculation that it is a Yankee map of the Southern States. I just can't figure out how my family came to have it. My great-great-great uncle that had the map lived in Chickamauga GA. near Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain. He moved to Chattanooga later in life and brought the map with him. It's a mystery we will never solve but that makes it even more interesting.
I know what you mean. Rockwell Van Gogh was one of my favorites too.
I hadn't thought about roll-your-own. Either way you really must get that map appraised. Check out the David Rumsey map collection. Lots of people would pay good money to have it.
Some people have all the luck!
You might try the history departments at one of the universitys there in Tennessee. Being as it's a Civil War item related to the state the value should be of interest to a collector as well as a historian.
tell me who and I'll look him up for you.
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