today was interesting... very actually... the GF wanted to go run around, so i postponed fishing (probably shouldnt have) and said OK... i could have litterally gone broke today, but made alot of money, but we kept it smart, theres always tommorow for that

some of the items we got today:

an ancient Roman Ring, possibly a Gladiator Kill Ring, or a Devil Eyes ring, from 200-400 A.D.

a gold painted/illuminated leaf from the Koran from the 1700s

a pair of Chinese Binding Shoes, that were actually used, probably from the 1500s

an old Marriage Lisence from Germany, date 1891 (just looked cool)

an ancient Jade Knife, around 2000 years old..

then i saw this painting, it was at one sale that didnt have much, but i liked it, its rather simple, and it was 2 bucks, the lady said "we couldnt find a signature, so its probably not worth anything"... (the frame itself is worth more than 2 bucks)...

so i take it home, and pop the back off to pull the picture out, when i pull the cardboard off, there is a Lithograph behind it...im immeadiately like WOW, thats cool, an old stage coach scene, called The Road Summer, by Nathaniel Currier... its being researched for authenticity by the Friesen art gallery in Seattle as we speak... its companion picture The Road Winter, has sold as high as 7k, with a few even higher than that...

oh yeah, when i pulled out the painting that i actually was looking at, it was signed, and dated Austraila 1968, by Tadashi,Isaka... they are also researching that one as well, and were very interested in it...

also got a very very old Renior reprint called Cup of Chocolate for 5 bucks... new reprints go for as high as 1k in some places...

fun day, hopefully a very productive one...

anyone else get out and buy sh!t they dont need?

Ha! Screw you, RH! I bought a plastic truck tool box.....so there!

Gawd.....I'm not even close to the same league.

damn braggart.....LOL

American Pickers sucks...

here is the pics i sent to the Friesen Fine Art gallery that they requested...

this is the picture i bought for 2 dollars



and this, is the one that was behind it in the hand carved wood frame

1700s Koran leaf



oh yeah, i got another ancient ring, with a big stone, but i dont know what it is... jade, onyx, dont even know, but its cool...

I happened to find a complete T. Rex skeleton at a sale down the street. Probably from modern day Wyoming, around 66 million years ago.

Gravity, huh?

That kid was pretty cool to give you gravity.

Next time I drop something on the floor, I'm going to be thinking I should set you on fire.

I'm pretty sure you can't sell your gravity for millions, though. I'm selling that skeleton next week for real American dollars.

That story's not even believable, KK.



I can't believe Hank gave away gravity. Don't you know what could happen?

If my skeleton floats away before I can sell it, Hank, we're going to have words.

Keerist, I'm proud of you KK. I had no idea you even knew what
a Guttenburg Bible or the Magna Carta were. Kinda puzzled why
you didn't pick up those Dead Sea Scrolls while you were at it.

KK got the hat.

you truly are the village idiot.

ahh but alas, im not, once again.... nice try tho...

there are tons of them on Ebay genius....

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_sacat=0&_nkw=ancient+roman+ring&_pgn=2&_skc=50&rt=nc

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_sacat=0&_nkw=ancient+roman+ring&rt=nc

heres a pic of the Roman ring, the other ring i dont know what its from, but its very old as well.... and the small Jade knife...

oh yeah, this was an Estate sale, not someones junk azz garbage sale... the guy also had stuff from King Solomon, and the kings before that were dated 3000-4000 years old ,APPRAISED... didnt have the money for that stuff tho...

or maybe the owners of the Estate had died, and the family had a person sell it off to pay back bills or whatever? happens ALL THE TIME... some people cannot wait for auctions, or whatnot, they need to get rid of it 3 weeks ago, so they go the route of Estate sales and offer the things for lower than what they are actually worth.... genius..

got an email back from the Friesen Abmeyer Fine Art gallery, the owner said that he doesnt know much about the lithograph, because its rare... my best option to learn more would be to try to dig up what i can, or take it to an appraiser that deals with 19th century art...

he did say it was a steal to get those 2 pics for 2 bucks tho, HA!.

One ring to rule them all!


RH wields his powers over garage sales. King Solomon... I am sure.

uhhhh probably because i have had it for just over 24 hours, i wanted to go to the river today, and i can do some research on my own, im not new with computers...

just found one being offered for 3k, and another style picture from the same guys on ebay for 8900...

i might just throw it up on Ebay for 2 grand and see what happens, i mean a 1998 $ profit isnt so bad i guess...

i have every idea how many of those lithographs were reprinted... the guy from Martin Zambito told me about it, but from what i told him, he said it would be wise to get it checked out, he wanted me to bring it in, Seattle is a ways away for me... so i will have to go somewhere down here... the other picture is hand painted, so i know its original...

i also didnt buy the ring, nor the knife to make any money on, you can see i said pretty much that in a previous post.. i bought them because they were cool looking, and i dont know anyone with anything from 2-400A.D., so why not? the knife, i can make into something cool, or just leave it as is, i really dont care, it just liked it and bought it...

the painting, was bought to make money off of, and it just so happened, that behind it was the lithograph...

anyways, i just thought i would share some cool sh!t and see if anyone else got some cool sh!t over the weekend... appearently it was stupid of me to think that would be OK, since there are artists, ancient Roman artifact dealers, and appraisers on this site that can tell what something is just by looking at a picture from the internet....

but, im stubborn, i will instead listen to the people at art gallereys, if its fake, i dont care, i actually bought it 1 because of the painting (i can sell it for more than 2 bucks guarenteed), and 2, because i really liked the frame....

anyways, back to your regularly scheduled retardedness, ive got a game to watch, mods, you can go ahead and delete this, i will share things that i think are cool to people that will actually find them interesting...

toodles...

id probably take a swing and guess that doubling your money, regardless of the amount, is probably a good idea...

then again, ive been wrong before...

I am having a garage sale next weekend.

I have 10 can's of compression to sell.

$10.00 a piece.

I see them an ebay every day for $20.00.

Please stop in.

im not interested in compression, if you have bags of Okies ill buy em up right now...

Will sumbody ban this donkus before i shoot the sumbitch!!!!!!! %$#@!!!!!!

Probation officer won't let you leave Pierce County?

actually my mom wont let me leave the county... she grounded me for 5 years 4 years ago, so im kinda stuck....

some of you people are pathetic...

Pathetic? You are the momma's boy who is not allowed to leave the county. Why don't you leave your mom's basement and quit being such a goddamn pussy.

Dang!
Want a gremlin too?

I would tell redhook that he has aspergers but then he would tell me that he knows a guy that can make better assburgers than me.

Definitely on the Aspergers scale somewhere. Called that long ago.

got these a while ago... they are Chart Art by the well known artist Betty Vestuto...each print is signed and numbered, i will sell them for 50 dollars a piece, with 10 dollars PER PICTURE, going to Bob and the site...

let me know if interested..

J.F.C!

I get home, do a quick check of this board and now it looks I have to step in and do some moderating right now. Way to ruin my dinner.

First off.....this is WAY more believable.....



Next, lemme fix this for you, Slab.



As usual, Hank is flat out lying.....this is more like it.



Can't ignore Aunty....



Come on, that's just WRONG! What the hell???



Not a chance in HELL! Bob should be charging you all for this free entertainment. You just can't make this [Bleeeeep!] up!



I accept PayPal payments......



WHOA! Looks like Todd lost his Mod status and is now replaced by AuntyM!!!!

Go get 'em, Aunty!!!!!!



...and lastly, I leave you all with a photo that I received in a PM. Great to know I'm loved around here.



...and DON'T YOU FORGET IT!!!

i almost bought 2 WW2 Nazi patches from the same place i got all the other stuff... but i didnt want to be called a skin head because i owned them, kinda like the whole corkie thing...

sold a German paratrooper helmet from WW2 a while ago, complete with the eagle gripping the swastika, and the unit emblem on the other side, hand camoed with a sponge it looked like... got 700 for that, but it was worth way more from what ive been told, upwards of 3500... and got rid of 2 Nazi arm bands for 150 a crack as well... it was kinda creepy owning it honestly, i enjoyed it as a WW2 artifact, but others didnt care for it, or me owning it for that matter...

got 2 german coins last weekend, with the eagle and swastika on them as well, not worth anything, but interesting none the less...

some people really like other peoples "garbage"...

That was a pretty f'n funny post, Paker.

What size are those prints, redhook? Those are actually pretty cool.

the pics inside the matting and bevel (viewed area) from it are 9 1/2 by 7 1/2, in the frames, they are 12ish by 15ish..

Hank
Can you call the guy with the gravity and ask him to turn it down a bit. My fat ass has really been draggin lately.

I didn't know we had a Piscatorial Shutz Staffel. Ach, Himmel.

I grabbed some blinker fluid from a Model T a few weeks back. Can't believe those poor saps gave that away for pennies on the dollar.

Funny shiit right there..