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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;spirit-of-shiloh, post: 17700, member: 32&quot;]<a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/08/15/49322.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/08/15/49322.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/08/15/49322.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>What Happened to Our Norman Rockwells?</p><p><br /></p><p>Excerpt.</p><p><br /></p><p>Larry Kritcher, of Florida, and Eve Thyrum, of Texas, say they paid $1,475 to restore and reframe five Rockwells at the (nonparty) Art Conservation Resource Center in Boston.</p><p>Kritcher and Thyrum claim that in 1995 they consigned the retouched paintings to defendant Illustration House, a Manhattan gallery that estimated that the pieces would sell for at least $76,000.</p><p>&quot;Upon information and belief, the value of these five paintings has tripled to $228,000,&quot; according to the complaint in New York County Supreme Court.</p><p>The plaintiffs say one piece was sold at auction for $9,000 in 1996, and they got a $7,785 cut. But they say they received no word about the four other works for 16 years, until they started calling Illustration House for updates from January to March this year.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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