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All day - yesterday, today, opening, pricing endless amounts of crockery, china, plates, boring-assed fucking kitsch. Not a single thing worth looking at...
And the sheer number number of people that can't be bothered to even wash their dishes before donating! Or think a tea kettle without a lid is still worth something, or a single dirty sock, or a ...
You get the idea.
Unless you count that painting I saw of a Unicorn nursing kittens (and a raccoon!!), which was pretty special...
Obviously not an original, but special nonetheless. And the butterflies frolicking...
Otherwise I feel I need to rinse my eyes every hour or so, the quality - even when not bad, is so devalued by the sheer unending quantity of it that I want to start smashing every thing I unbox.
Anyways, glad to read of people having better luck in thrift shops - A 1st Century Roman Bust for $35.00 US.
Link: https://www.bnd.com/news/nation-world/national/article261085032.html
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Yeah, there's something about metal detecting in the bush VS Europe or China...
An impressive find - with a hefty price tag (a single coin!!). Although there's always the risk the government will take it from you...
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jan/24/devon-detectorist-13th-century-gold-coin-sold
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Less a treasure "Found" than a Treasure "Made".
A 55 facet 555.55 Carat Diamond goes up for auction at Sotheby's Dubai, home of the world's silliest money.
Link: https://www.cnn.com/style/article/enigma-diamond-sothebys-auction-scn-scil-intl/index.html
Now, this is NFT's or Cryptocurrency made tangible - the stone itself, hardly rare, or beautiful, it's an example of manufactured demand - cut perfectly to an Arabic version of a "Lucky Number", it's purchase is entirely designed to grant the buyer "status" - a preposterous luxury purchase of absolutely no intrinsic value.
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Made in Bolivia, out of real Llama Skin. They spell it "Lama" but I know better, I mean, I found it in Nelson. And - while not EXACTLY what I wanted, it's close enough, and having canvassed and searched a dozen thrift shops in Vancouver, and a couple of others in Edmonton, this will be the bag.
Thrift shops, Nelson, terrific, have missed them greatly. Vancouver thrift shops are mighty fine too, merely exorbitant - and I didn't find a bag.
Now there's an awful lot more treasures to be searched for...
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(Still cleaning up old unposted blog articles. So - not current, but nonetheless inspiring...)
A couple of Gauguin's stolen from London turns up on an Italian factory worker's wall, some 40 years later.
Via the BBC, note the subtext: "Factory Worker's Wall", implying - that Factory Worker's don't appreciate art? Or that they have an eye for discount masterpieces? Inherit classism, or salacious detail designed to lure in viewers?