Beebo
Firm and Fruity
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- Hexleybeef
Just ask forest gump🙂
Future nest egg?
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Salty seadog
Space Cadet...(3rd Class...)
You after coming round to see my bling?!!
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Pretty impressive wouldn't you say?!
I can see you are a fan of the EU and must have voted remain.
Salty seadog
Space Cadet...(3rd Class...)
I can see you are a fan of the EU and must have voted remain.
Did I get it wrong?
You are after all using a Euro Pallet there, not one of our good old British block pallets.
Traitor.
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Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
200 quid? One of Jimi Hendrix's ised guitar strings.
Chris S
Legendary Member
- Location
- Birmingham
Buy the next big innovation to hit the market (6G phone, etc). Never take it out of its box. It's bound to be a collectors item in a few decades time.
Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
- Location
- The hills of Accrington
I'm thinking of buying this restoration project folks. It's only £1850 on fleabay. I've seen fully restored ones go for 10 grand,so a bit of sandpaper and a tin of spray paint and i'll soon quadruple my money!
Badger_Boom
Veteran
- Location
- York
Alvin Hall the American celebrity financial advisor gave the same advice on art. By stuff you like to look at and with luck some or even all of it will increase in value.Find an artist you like who is just starting out and buy a piece of their work.
A real punt but if you like the artwork it doesn't really matter if it increases in value.
Having watched the Antiques Roadshow I've realised monetary values show how oddly the antiques world value things.
Moth eaten teddy bears can be worth hundreds as long as made by Steiff.
oldfatfool
Guru
Art, if you buy something YOU like then it doesn't matter if it doesn't appreciate, you still get to enjoy it without actually 'using' it.
.Profpointy
Legendary Member
I'm thinking of buying this restoration project folks. It's only £1850 on fleabay. I've seen fully restored ones go for 10 grand,so a bit of sandpaper and a tin of spray paint and i'll soon quadruple my money!
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Wow! I'll not be wasting any time making an offer on that one
Chris S
Legendary Member
- Location
- Birmingham
It's a Series II with a turning front mudguard so it might be the Spanish Winter model. It could well be worth £1850.I'm thinking of buying this restoration project folks. It's only £1850 on fleabay. I've seen fully restored ones go for 10 grand,so a bit of sandpaper and a tin of spray paint and i'll soon quadruple my money!
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EDIT: I've just done an image search and the Winter model's mudguard was a different shape. This one is either extremely rare or a BitSA.
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HarryTheDog
Guru
- Location
- Basildon Essex
Coincidentally I have been seriously thinking about this as my sister has been a artist for many many years and now in her mid 50's her paintings are starting to have real value, recently she sold 2 for 6K each through a gallery and the gallery took 60% of this. Some of her other work is going for the 1-3K mark. I was thinking of buying some of her work now with no gallery mark up and brothers rates and squirreling it away for my retirement, trouble is I dont have the few thousand I need spare at the moment.Find an artist you like who is just starting out and buy a piece of their work.
A real punt but if you like the artwork it doesn't really matter if it increases in value.
Having watched the Antiques Roadshow I've realised monetary values show how oddly the antiques world value things.
Moth eaten teddy bears can be worth hundreds as long as made by Steiff.
HarryTheDog
Guru
- Location
- Basildon Essex
@Oldhippy my sister explained it to me that its the gallery owners "list" that is important. In this case its a lady who owns the gallery in Edinburgh. Her list of potential well heeled clients she has built up over the years is where the money is. The 2 paintings that went for 6k each were among a bundle a multi millionaire spent 250k on with the gallery to fill a new house. Its the contacts that took her 30 odd years to amass that is important. 40% of something is better than 100% of nowt. The smaller galleries will charge less comission but there potential buyers on their lists probably dont have 250k etc to throw away on paintings they havent even seen.
