Diamond In The Rough Traditional Cache
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A camo'd Altoids tin with log and swag near the site of an urban legend come true.
You hear about it all the time. Someone buys something at a thrift store or garage sale, only to discover later on that it is worth a fortune. The details are usually pretty fuzzy, a friend-of-a-friend, an unspecified place, etc. Are these stories really true??
In the shopping center across the street from this cache from this cache is a store belonging to a well-known national chain of second hand stores. At this very store on April 28, 2012, artist Beth Feeback bought two large paintings for $9.99 each.
According to a news story, Ms. Feeback said she was selling her paintings at a local flea market,
"It was so cold for it to be April 28," said Feeback, "So I went into a Thrift store to get a blanket. I thought, 'I have to look around. You can't leave without doing that.'"
The unemployed artist saw two large paintings being sold.
"I bought them for the canvases. I planned to paint over them. Do you know how much a canvas that size costs?" laughed Feeback.
She claimed she actually was about to start painting over one when a friend encouraged her to do a little research.
Both paintings had tags from Weatherspoon Art Gallery in Greensboro on the backs, with the artist names. When Feeback googled "Illy Bolotowski" she was shocked.
It turns out the the paintings were a piece named "Vertical Diamond" that used to hang in the Winston-Salem corporate offices of Burlington Industries. Feeback contacted Sotheby's auction house in New York, which appraised the paintings at $20,000. The paintings were recently auctioned off and ultimately sold for $34,500.
There's all kinds of 'treasure hunts' in this world, and geocaching is only one of them!!
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