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Cat was just chilling on the 74 bus headed West.

Purchased for $seventy dollars a couple weeks ago. I just dropped it off at a local Fine Art auction house. Reserve: fifteen hundred, Est: three to six (k). Not sure how they missed this one. The guy checking me out after the auction was like, "uhhhWTF?!" As he read the items on my invoice. Goes an sale on September 5th. The house was VERY interested when I sent them photos. Their drop-dead date for consignments had already passed but they want to include this piece. I also loved it. I had it for over a month and found myself staring at it all the time. Blessed to have it blessing my walls for a short while.

Purchased from an estate sale that had other fine art paintings and prints. So, for $22 I thought I'd give it a go. I was excited to find the canvas and frame seemed the right age, but this is just too wacky and a bit crude? Lots of textures and the artist took some pointed object and made squiggles in the wet paint. I really have been falling for it and it does fit with my collections. Thanks,

Meeting with the seller and taking a closer look this really looks legit. But it's almost a cruder, less defined version. The frame and strwtched canvas imply age but I'm not an expert, obviously. Thanks,

45 pounds of Agate and Jasper personally harvested from the finest constructions sites and landscaping MN has to offer. This was the end of a 3 day pre polish with 500 grit Silicon.

Inch thick Mary Ellen Jasper from the Iron Range in NE Minnesota. I've had this loaf for over a year now and finally got it on a proper 14" saw. Cabs? Bookends? What should I do with them?

Had a long hiatus. Back on the polishing game.

Hi, I am thankful for this community! Can someone tell me what is enscribed on the back of this document? The front has a hand painted image of elephants "fighting"?? And a Jaipur government stamp? Thank you!

Purchased yesterday at an estate sale in Buffalo, MN. The retail sticker on the back says it's from "Eddy Chang's Co Inc Picture Framing, Korea". On further research Eddy is apparently a well known art and antiquities dealer from South Korea. At one point he was arrested for the illegal sale of Korean Antiquities. The painting is in ink with color washes and even small remnants of gilding on the horse's poms and on the cuffs of the hunters. The paper is attached to a second layer of paper/silk perhaps and that layer is matted to a pine board. From my inspection it seems the damage was already present before being mounted. The characters outstretched hands are ready to catch a falling bird pierced with a red arrow falling from the sky located center top of painting. Possibly Qing Dynasty. If anyone knows more, please let me know! Thanks,

My favorite spot. No matter how many times I go, I always find a new place to explore. It was obvious this low ground had never really been gone over by anyone much less myself because baby aggies were everywhere.

This was the only Agate we found and all day. Penny did find a deer shed, which she is becoming very good at. Fund day in the sun anyway. Thanks,

Found this little guy on top of a large pile of discarded rocks mud and trees. Love to find them when they're still whole. With a tiny little peek of purple showing off. Found at a construction site just east of downtown St Paul Minnesota

True to form, tablespoons are all that's necessary. So deep. molasses, toasted vanilla, Hard candy, cane juice. Clean palate. Zero cloy. I will share it over the week. After I have a thorough inspection. Sláinte

Steel toe. Stamp says "9 EE 09514". I can't find anything about that style. Everything seems to start with 8 or 4? I live about 30 minutes from Redwing MN so I could just pop buy lol. They are so comfortable and I love them. Thanks!

I keep thinking about how if this was a character on OeeWee's Playhouse, it would be the Swol Coffee Table that keeps trying to fight everyone at the bar.

Hey y'all. A friend of my father's received these items in a shadow box as payment for whatever it is he does. This gentleman asked my father to possibly sell them in his consignment shop that my mother and father run. The guy told my dad that he thought if they were made by a modern knapper. I told him that I thought the obsidian ones were modern but I wasn't sure about the mat black ones. They appear to have been made very long ago and have very soft edges and a sort of patina. We don't want to mislead anyone at the shop obviously, so I said I would post them here to see what y'all think. I appreciate the help. Thanks.