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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ghopper1924, post: 278232, member: 5170&quot;]Super nice find, Mr. Nate!</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope all of you have seen the doco about the &quot;new&quot; Leonardo da Vinci portrait that was unearthed a few years ago.[ATTACH=full]88575[/ATTACH] Apparently it briefly hung in a New York gallery priced at $20-something thousand because the owner didn&#039;t know what it was. I&#039;ve since heard $80-100 million bandied about. The ultimate &quot;one that got away.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>On a personal level, I had an opportunity to buy a $10,000 table attributed to either Herter Bros. or Pottier and Stymus. This is not the table, but it was similar:[ATTACH=full]88576[/ATTACH]&nbsp; It went for $850. I did not want to buy it because the gold highlights on the legs had been painted over (&quot;improved&quot;) with new gilt, and I didn&#039;t have the money at the time anyway. I will probably never stop kicking myself.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the positive side, I am the happy co-owner of a ca. 1650 English Adam &amp; Eve tapestry in its original frame with a value of something like $5-10K, and I got it for free, heh heh. I&#039;ll post pictures one of these days.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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