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Title: ..renoir found at flea market
Post by: bigwull on September 08, 2012, 11:17:51 AM

See link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19528084

Title: Re: ..renoir found at flea market
Post by: Rauville on September 08, 2012, 03:54:26 PM

Well, I'm pretty dumb...but I think even I would be smart enough to check out that "Renoir" tag on the frame before I sold it at a flea market. :P

Title: Re: ..renoir found at flea market
Post by: mart on September 08, 2012, 04:28:11 PM

read it but pic didn`t show !!

Title: Re: ..renoir found at flea market
Post by: ACStanley on September 08, 2012, 05:27:05 PM

I have had some wonderful finds... but, thats just amazing... Im not even sure I would put it in auction....  I would put it on loan to a museum and hold tight until i really needed the money...

Title: Re: ..renoir found at flea market
Post by: greenacres on September 08, 2012, 06:04:09 PM

Was the person who put it in the box to begin with!

Title: Re: ..renoir found at flea market
Post by: bigwull on September 08, 2012, 08:13:05 PM

Quote from: Rauville on September 08, 2012, 03:54:26 PM

Well, I'm pretty dumb...but I think even I would be smart enough to check out that "Renoir" tag on the frame before I sold it at a flea market. :P

In reality....how many people would...there common sense would tell them differently....like "if its too good to be true"...and they,d be thinking...Na, nobody would put Renoir, on the front...it must be a copy....that is until now!....

Title: Re: ..renoir found at flea market
Post by: ghopper1924 on September 08, 2012, 08:38:50 PM

Lucky dog!!

Title: Re: ..renoir found at flea market
Post by: bbc-antiques.co.uk on September 09, 2012, 04:06:40 AM

I had some pre raphelite  pastel pictures from a boot sale £35  got £3,200! also saw an original John Constable sell with name tag for £30  but buyer wouldnt sell me it  also missed a Scott geese picture because I assumed it was a print until someone picked it up and i saw the texture of the paint Its out there !

Title: Re: ..renoir found at flea market
Post by: cogar on September 09, 2012, 05:34:33 AM

It is those "sleepers" that keeps one going back again n' again ..... with high hopes that they will "spot it" before someone else does. ;D ;D

Title: Re: ..renoir found at flea market
Post by: AdamD777 on September 09, 2012, 08:43:43 AM

wow............!

Title: Re: ..renoir found at flea market
Post by: bbc-antiques.co.uk on September 09, 2012, 11:45:02 AM

I went today %AM and bought junk  no treasures ! thats the other problem   keeping your cash in your pocket and buying inferior quality items

Title: Re: ..renoir found at flea market
Post by: bbc-antiques.co.uk on September 09, 2012, 11:48:32 AM

These were a good find last week for £3  !!!  http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/180969290095?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649

Title: Re: ..renoir found at flea market
Post by: mart on September 09, 2012, 07:45:04 PM

i would be happy with that !!  good finds are out there,, probably a lot more than we hear about !!