Charity shop bargains?

You bought them because you liked them ,not because they could be worth a lot , hang them on your wall and enjoy them 

Another great charity shop find  well done you you could get them valued by an expert it would be nice too know what they could be worth just out of interest.

peter.

Sounds good ValDa,I see Elisabeth Estivalet has her own web site, I can see why you were attracted to the pictures. I think I'd hang on to them and enjoy them! You can all always sell them later if they are still popular.

And if they are fakes, you will still like them.  If they are original and you sold them, would you donate half the money to the charity?

If you get a charity shop in an 'upmarket' area then the stuff can be fantastic, in Beverly near Hull I got some barnd new still in their wrappers and tags Van Heusen shirts for £3 each. When I checked the website they sold for £30 new!

And if they are fakes, you will still like them.  If they are original and you sold them, would you donate half the money to the charity?

...Good quality art prints can look very realistic, I see this painter only uses a palette knife to paint so I hope ValDa's have palette marks if they are real.

They do have palette knife marks on them, and are oil on canvas, not prints!  They are nicely framed, though I suspect not in the original frames - but anyway they're lovely.  I shall let you know if we have them valued!  They were gift-aided, so if necessary we could probably trace the original owner.

I shall certainly hang on to them, and I may even buy a couple more prints (from ebay) and try to get some similar frames to match them.

We're going back to the charity shop right now to see if they have any more in 'the back room'.

And yes, they do have some upmarket stuff.  I bought a new pair of Olsen 'jeans', still with the original price tag, unworn, for £3.99!

If you like them that much Valda and they are worth a tidy amount after valuation, hang where they were intended , and wait until the artist passes away  then have them revalued 

We've now taken one apart, and between the mount and the canvas, there was some newspaper, in what looks as if it might be Polish, and the artist was originally from Poland!! Watch this space!! Exciting.

How exciting for you!  I thought a lot of Charity shops checked their goods for the occasional windfall like that.  I wonder which charity it was.