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I buy the real art that nobody else wants at the end of a yard sale for pocket change  or whatever cash in my pocket. I look for quality that may have been beat up and may have a busted frame.  Old dirty oil paintings that are signed oddly with a brush. If the canvas is ripped I don’t care. Looks like something my grand parents may have brought over in a wagon from who knows where. If its ready for the burn pile I want that. I let it hang on my wall until I know everything about it. Art talks to me and tells me everything about it. I repair it usually…but only after a lot of time has passed. I look for it on the net and in art schools. Then sell reluctantly for what its worth…a thousand or better usually. I do get stung occasionally by art dealers. I gave one a spoon that was produced in 1245AD to appraise and they sold it at Christies for $40,000.00.