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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Stig / Major Tom on May 12, 2020, 12:37:02 PM
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I need to go have a closer look at the art 'prints' on my daughter's bedroom walls!
We keep getting these auction alerts from Sotheby’s.....
(I know she saved her Xmas $ from her grandmother, but....!!)
Stig
https://www.sothebys.com/en/digital-catalogues/impressionist-modern-art-day-sale-online?cmp=banner_google_impressionist-online_N10495_2020&utm_source=google&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=impressionist-N10495&gclid=EAIaIQobChMInb6vzaiu6QIVDDStBh2kpgFPEAEYASAAEgLIn_D_BwE (https://www.sothebys.com/en/digital-catalogues/impressionist-modern-art-day-sale-online?cmp=banner_google_impressionist-online_N10495_2020&utm_source=google&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=impressionist-N10495&gclid=EAIaIQobChMInb6vzaiu6QIVDDStBh2kpgFPEAEYASAAEgLIn_D_BwE)
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Gotta admit, I really like the Singer Sargent. Could hang this general over my toolbox in the garage....keep me squared away when I'm working on my scooter.
And the weird little Utrillo....would fit under my seat I think.
Stig
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My impulse buying during the C-19 (before stay at home order). A 2005 kymco people 250 I bought for parts to fix my project people 250. The guy I bought it from said he drove it home from his sons house where it was not being used and said it wouldn't start again. He put on a new coil and wire along with a new battery to no avail. Said he could not get any spark. He had just retired and wanted his garage back for woodworking projects.
I offered him a rock bottom price that he turned down and I sweetened the pot just a little and he accepted. I drove down to Oklahoma and picked the scooter up without making any stops there and back.
When I got home and unloaded the scooter I thought about my people 150 having trouble with the contacts on the start stop switch. I fiddled with the switch and the scooter started.
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Impulse buying almost got me a 2006 Ninja 250R with only 3500 miles. Good thing was it sold before I could dial the number.
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I've had to reign it in, it's hard impulse buying because there's so much out there at the moment!
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I've had to reign it in, it's hard impulse buying because there's so much out there at the moment!
Actually just the opposite has happened here. I don't know if it's money from the stimulus checks to people who are still working or just pent-up angst from being at home. I've seen 3 low mileage Kymco scooters go for considerable more then their book value. All three were under a thousand miles and mint condition.
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Buy in haste,repent at leisure?
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Well, Sotheby's had a great day with their auction - me, not so much.
Most of the works went for well above the estimates. People were buying!!
I tried a couple of last minute bid-nips, without success.
I bid $25.50 on the Utrillo (it's 6"x8" for Pete's sake, plus he messed up the "M") it went for $27,500
(https://i.postimg.cc/KjXnQ4kv/image.jpg)
And, I knew I'd have to up my game for the C. Pissarro (15"x18")
Closed my eyes and bid $109.96 ….
Somebody slipped it out from under me for $560,000 .
(https://i.postimg.cc/VLfFhrZd/image.jpg)
Major Tom
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My 24 by 36 oil paintings are about half that good. Would they go for $250,000 then? I haven't been able to get more than $55.
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My 24 by 36 oil paintings are about half that good. Would they go for $250,000 then? I haven't been able to get more than $55.
Try adding a gilt frame....
It pushed the Pissarro up, I think.
(or painting on black velvet (big sellers here at gas stations! F-150 owners love them - especially the Unicorns and Elvis)
Major Tom
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Try adding a gilt frame....
It pushed the Pissarro up, I think.
(or painting on black velvet (big sellers here at gas stations! F-150 owners love them - especially the Unicorns and Elvis)
Major Tom
So your saying Sam Walton had a collection of Elvis and Unicorn paintings? I guess when you reach billionaire status your tastes become eccentric instead of poor taste.
For those that didn't know he drove a 74 Ford F-150.
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I am just out of luck. I paint landscapes.
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I am just out of luck. I paint landscapes.
Good for you. It's a relaxing thing to do.
If you like, I'd be interested in see some of your work. Do you have an on line site?
Major Tom
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I don't have a site. Here are a few a have still at the house. The cardinal was my first acrylic. I haven't finished the person in the Edinburgh Beach.
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I have some old maps, being a retired land surveyor, what else would I collect, my most valuable is an original 1852 railroad map of New Hampshire, also have a early 1700's numbered reprint of an old New England map. others are more recent and were limited quantity reprints at the time I got them.
but now, their value has been reduced by the ability to order reprints of about any map, online
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I think online availability killed a lot of small antique markets. I have the 1923 hand drawn survey for our property. I don't understand the marking system, for instance, our one corner is labeled as a stone which is in the middle of what the survey calls a stony gully. Also the 14 inch oak stumps, from 1923.
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Actually just the opposite has happened here. I don't know if it's money from the stimulus checks to people who are still working or just pent-up angst from being at home. I've seen 3 low mileage Kymco scooters go for considerable more then their book value. All three were under a thousand miles and mint condition.
We have the same here. Bike prices are sky high - in fact, they're insane for some of the rubbish that's out there at the moment. Each time I see an advert that I think is reasonable, it's for a non-running bike. Madness.
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We have the same here. Bike prices are sky high - in fact, they're insane for some of the rubbish that's out there at the moment. Each time I see an advert that I think is reasonable, it's for a non-running bike. Madness.
The three scooters went for close to $500. Over NADA value. The funny thing is a dealer not far has new 2019 Kymco 300's on clearance for his cost.
I myself have purchased a couple of non-runners for a winter project for next to nothing. I have found very few people have mechanical skills anymore and sometimes sell over the simplest problem. The two 150's had to have the carburetors cleaned from sitting so long, that's it to get them going.
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We have the same here. Bike prices are sky high - in fact, they're insane for some of the rubbish that's out there at the moment. Each time I see an advert that I think is reasonable, it's for a non-running bike. Madness.
Got a ‘14 plate Chinese 125 going if you’re interested? It’s a runner with new rubber...
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I don't have a site. Here are a few a have still at the house. The cardinal was my first acrylic. I haven't finished the person in the Edinburgh Beach.
Pretty cool - nice job.
Thanks for sharing.
I'm collecting rainy night pix these days...
(https://i.postimg.cc/tgtfWK7f/image.jpg)
Major Tom
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Got a ‘14 plate Chinese 125 going if you’re interested? It’s a runner with new rubber...
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I'll drop you a PM :) I'm always interested to some degree... :D
**edit**
Just realised the irony of this in an inpulse-buying thread...