re: Major antique find!!!!!!! Update valued at $7500!!!

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That’s great! I’m always interested in that kind of stuff and wish I had an eye what to look for but I’m an old red neck

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Pick what you know or like, hunting stuff, fishing lures, vintage cowboy boots, clothes, and hats, or whatnot.

When I started, I liked LSU, toys, and just the bizarre.

One of my great hits was a checkbook box full of train tickets from 1903 to 1930. I paid ¢.50 and sold them for $1000+. I once bought a box of hotel keys from the 50’s to the 70’s. I paid $20 and sold them for somewhere in the $1000 range.

Just some odd ball shite that most people pass on.

I grew from there. If I found something interesting and it was a couple bucks, I’d buy it, get home, do research on it, sell it.
It’s even easier now with smartphones. You can look it up before buying it.

Smartphones has taken the fun out of hunting.

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Update on my research of this painting:

I finally heard back from the artist. He said my painting is from around 1975, and was during the time of “designing the spirit of Hawk.”

Basically saying this Hawk paint is a VERY early painting of Hawk, the equivalence of having a very early Blue Dog.

That is so awesome. My daughter (no pics) is an artist. I love sharing these type of stories with her. Gives her hope.

Thanks for sharing!

It's only worth what someone is willing to pay. Let us know what you sell it for. Hopefully it's a lot.

I haven’t decided if I want to sell it or not. I’m leaning on keeping it a few years. The artist is an old man now, even tho he only looks 60 with a supermodel wife

Does Mother want to know?

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Can we get an update on how much you got for this piece? I never trust art galleries and their bloated valuations, usually which are 10x actual street value.

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What is your favor antique that you own?

That is an impossible question to answer, and perhaps is worthy of a top 10 list.

Some of my favorites include a Kazimierz Sichulski Christmas themed oil painting, a little known sketch of Prytania St by the greatest New Orleans painter of all-time, John McCrady, my 1928 Book of Common Prayer, a WW2 British soldier Book of Common Prayer, which I received from my deceased Great Uncle, who lived in Edinburgh, and an original Oxford Lectern Bible designed by Bruce Rogers (1935) that has the original binding.

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