When I'm walking down the street or cruising in Cyberspace and I see something, it sometimes talks to me saying, "Hey I'm a quality item that has value." I stop, look and say, "Your right you are something special," I then go home, do my research to find out what it is, what makes it special and valuable.
This past week I was cruising through a list of nealy 700 Antique Collectable auctions to be held on Saturday alone, and this is the only item besides a 'Spoon" that really caught my eye. It was located in an estate auction in Maine.
I called on it and found that it is an unsigned 16 X 20 Impressionistic Landscape of New England. Generally this kind of thing will go for around $500 max on the Bay if it is really good. It would be considered to be of decorative value. Well the Auctioneers missed calling me for a phone bid, and the painting went for $1500.00 to a local. A better term for "Local" would be Art Dealer, who will double its value in his gallery, that is if he doesn't allready know who the artist was. If he does know who the artist was, all bets are off.
Oh well you can't get them all. I got mine last week, that pair of Pennsylvania Rifles has made me well for quiet some time to come. The week before that it was the books on German pistols that are worth double what I paid for them. It really does seem that I am able to build quiet abit of value over cost into my collections with amazing frequency.