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Owner: I actually got it at a yard sale. Bill Kime: When was that? Owner: Probably about eight or nine years ago. Bill Kime: I sold this plaque, not eight or nine years ago. I sold this plaque about fifteen years ago. And I don’t really remember what I sold it for – what did you pay for it?
Bill Kime: You’re kidding me! Owner: No, no. Bill
Kime: Fifty cents. Um… on the back, I’m just going
to
Bill Kime: Well, you’re on the right track, it’s probably a little earlier than that, it’s probably around 1830. And it’s the typical English romanticized view of probably the Penine country, the Lake District – you’ve got a cottage here and people fishing on a dock there and a dog in the foreground, so it’s a very sort of bucolic landscape. Often we find that there are, you know, the glaze will wear or there will be scratches and things like that but this one is in particularly good condition. I remember it as being in good condition and it has remained that way despite the – in a yard sale? Owner: A yard sale.
Owner: Right. Bill Kime: … and I’m sure I sold it within that, if not a little more than that and today I’d be quite confident of putting an estimate of say $1000 to $1500 and again expecting that it would bring the top end or better than that. Owner: Really? Wow. Impressive. Good investment.
Owner: Actually, just about a couple of blocks from my house. Bill
Kime: I’m going to be hanging around your place…
(laughter)
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Bill
Kime: This plaque is an old friend of mine. I don’t know
– where did you get it?
Owner:
Fifty cents.
turn it around, on the back, there’s the lot number we sold it
for and then really warms my heart was opening it up on the back and
there’s my listing number in my handwriting, in my little red
pen from about fifteen years ago. And I’ll come to value you in
a minute, I’ll tell you it’s a lot more than any fifty cents
we sold it for. It’s English – do you know anything about
the plaque?
Owner:
I, in my research, I found out that it could have been England around
1850? But I don’t know anything more than that.
Bill
Kime: In a yard sale. Um, I think that I imagine that I estimated
it at something like $700 to $1000 fifteen years ago…
Bill
Kime: Oh, it’s an incredible investment on fifty cents,
I can’t believe it. Where was this yard sale? I’ve got to
go, ah…
