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OLD PAINTING A STROKE OF LUCK (worth at least one mil)
Pioneer Press ^ | Sun, Dec. 05, 2004 | MARY BAUER

Posted on 12/05/2004 11:14:11 AM PST by Lijahsbubbe

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To: 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.


21 posted on 12/05/2004 12:38:43 PM PST by Ditter
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To: Melinda in TN

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!


22 posted on 12/05/2004 12:39:50 PM PST by painter
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To: Ditter

"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?


23 posted on 12/05/2004 12:44:23 PM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: MineralMan

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.


24 posted on 12/05/2004 12:50:37 PM PST by Ditter
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To: ken5050

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!


25 posted on 12/05/2004 12:57:59 PM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: Melinda in TN

Be willing to bet it's worth more than you think! Have you done any research on it?


26 posted on 12/05/2004 12:59:50 PM PST by swmobuffalo (the only good terrorist is a dead one)
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To: Melinda in TN

That is a real treasure. I love stories like yours.


27 posted on 12/05/2004 12:59:55 PM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: NautiNurse

Thank you!


28 posted on 12/05/2004 1:00:44 PM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: Osage Orange

I told you a million times....stop exaggerating!


29 posted on 12/05/2004 1:08:54 PM PST by Feiny (Scream if you love silence.)
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To: Lijahsbubbe

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!


30 posted on 12/05/2004 1:25:58 PM PST by ConservativeConvert
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To: Textide

Nice painting. I love that happy little tree off to the left there...


31 posted on 12/05/2004 1:30:44 PM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (I'm fresh out of tags. I'll pick some up tomorrow.)
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To: ConservativeConvert
I bought an abstract screenprint...for $7 that I just discovered is a Mondrian worth $2000!

Art Lotto winner!

32 posted on 12/05/2004 1:48:18 PM PST by NautiNurse
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To: swmobuffalo

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.


33 posted on 12/05/2004 3:15:53 PM PST by Melinda in TN
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To: FreedomCalls

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.


34 posted on 12/05/2004 3:26:13 PM PST by Melinda in TN
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To: lowbridge
I'd get rid of that thing right now. Possesion of that map could prove that you're a Yankee spy.

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.

35 posted on 12/05/2004 3:31:14 PM PST by Melinda in TN
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To: Lijahsbubbe

I know what you mean. Rockwell Van Gogh was one of my favorites too.


36 posted on 12/05/2004 3:36:28 PM PST by TN4Liberty (American... conservative... southern.... It doesn't get any better than this.)
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To: Melinda in TN
What about the roll-your-own cigarettes.

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.

37 posted on 12/05/2004 7:47:59 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: ConservativeConvert
Not a bad return on a 7 buck investment

Some people have all the luck!

38 posted on 12/05/2004 8:36:52 PM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: Melinda in TN

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.


39 posted on 12/05/2004 9:30:23 PM PST by swmobuffalo (the only good terrorist is a dead one)
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To: Ditter

tell me who and I'll look him up for you.


40 posted on 12/05/2004 10:58:35 PM PST by bitt (I am smitten by the Prez.)
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