I love Stephen's lion painting. He looks like he is getting ready to sneeze. It would bring a smile to my face every time I looked at it. The cow is nice too.
I hope 🤞 this auction goes over a million dollars, as you have so many priceless articles for sale. Your mother’s painting is beautiful. I would love to see more of her artwork. Stay safe and well yup and your family are in my thoughts, prayers and heart. Fran from a mountain in Tennessee!
Interestingly the thing that caught my eye was was the painting of the barn. I really liked it a lot. And then you said your Mom painted it. Amazing! Please let her know I loved it.
I now see where Stephen’s talent comes from. My mother was the artist in our family also. Thankfully I have been told that she passed some of it on to me. 😊I love the picture that your mom painted. ♥️ I also love Stephen’s work, he is quite a talented young man.
I think it would be nice if many of the items went to museums so they could be enjoyed by more people. I don’t know how the auction house reaches out when they get a collection like this, but I went ahead and sent the link to the auction and to the new article to the St. Louis Art Museum.
I love the "Tumi", the green ceremonial knife. I was so fortunate to see an Inca exhibit in Montreal in the late '80s. I am sure it will sell much higher than I can bid but I will try. Best of luck with the auction. I hope people realize the value of the ancient items. Hi from Sue in NB.
I contacted the National Museum of the American Indian in NYC about the original translation book. I hope it is worthy of their collection. There are a lot of good items in this auction lot. If your son's painting of the cow is your favorite, you should keep it! I like it too😊
I hope every museum in the world has access to information about your auction, and can bid. Good luck, I hope you makes lots and lots of money, enough to pay for the new cafe and then some. I really like you and your family. You entertain me and I look forward to your postings .
I don't trust museums. My mother donated a couple of rare military pieces to a military museum after my dad died. They schmoozed her to get them and they assured her they would be thrilled, happy, share with the public etc yadda yadda. We wanted to keep them in the family, but mom was losing it at the time and donated. Bastards just turned around and sold them to a collector for money.
Your Mom paints really well. Many interesting objects and such a mix. I see you put the childs cash register up for sale it will be interesting to see how much it goes for. Keep Safe ❤keep Well ❤
Miss the art gallery most quilt group mostmost durning look down show more l agree fellow artist👩🎨📸🎞🔋📖✂️📐📏📍🧶🤗😷😇 🌫🏵🌱⚘🧱🐇🌲🌳🐦l lovegemastones Bennett collecting as youngster hope the museum get it for all to enjoy 😉
I just bought an bound year full of the dutch illustrated basically a copy of the London illustrated news it's a print of 1868 and there's a beautiful illustration of eng and chang the original Siamese twins I know that print alone is worth about $200 can, so I did a great job at just about $5 can in euros!
I have several Aztec pipes they are made of stone and have the shape of an Aztec priests head now, I'm a smoker and not the chain type I only smoke in the evenings, not during the day the smoking rules are that you need to smoke outside everywhere and I'm not a fan of the cold and the wet so I stopped smoking during daytime well, back to the pipes I use one of them! the Aztec tobacco was similar to cigar tobacco only they marinated it what they did is that they made honey or fruit wine and re-humidified the tobacco with that fluid so, I cut cigars in thin strips and re-humidify with mead and then smoke that pipe they also mixed a local herb that's similar to rosemary so I use actual rosemary and its an interesting tasty experience I even let a non-smoker friend try a non-inhaling puff he said ''that's something I could get used to nice taste bro!'' that jaguar statue would have a similar mix of tobacco and herbs burning in that little dish the room it was in would smell like someone was cooking up something good!!
aaa! really?! that Jacques Cousteau picture is in my archive! I was nuts about him in my childhood and my sugar auntie arranged for me and Jacques to meet on the calypso in the mid 1980s and he signed this very picture I also got a handful of ancient Greek coins from Jaques he literally opened a drawer and grabbed a batch of coins and gave them to me! I still love my unrelated sugar auntie she's now nearly 80! she was/is one of those old-money families that can go everywhere and anywhere with connections everywhere Agatha Cristie style she couldn't get kids so she kinda adopted me instead and went traveling in my summer vacations between my age of 8 and 20 and we went everywhere are there other 12-year-olds that have been to Antarctica! or the north pole?! and pretty much every continent in between?! I'm done traveling I did all that between the ages of 8 and 20! I'm pretty happy as an internet couch traveler now and telling my stories to you guys!
POW art is just great for my phonograph collection I'm still waiting on that POW made portable gramophone I know a lot of them made an Italian friend of mine who's also a Canadian of Italian descent his father was in a British POW camp and his father made an art deco portable gramophone and he's an antique phonograph collector so, his father made the perfect inheritance gift to him! he said to me that since none of his kids are interested that the machine will go to me when he dies (he's 75) I hope he sticks around for a long time I like friends better than stuff and we are just custodians of that stuff to keep safe for the next generation well, that's basically what collecting is! I do have trench-made gramophones one is made out of ammo box parts with filing cabinet handles the other is made out of Belgian military bread boxes both were made during WWI one plays one does not as artifacts and relics they are both priceless there's only one of each in existence!
Can someone put a link to their auction? I've looked up Kauction, and found the website, but there are a lot of auctioneers and it's slightly confusing
I wish they wouldn’t put stickers on items. At least not where the left over sticky residue would show. Those types of stickers can leave a ugly sticker residue that can be tricky to get off.
Alex the Charles Shultz newspaper cartoons strip in the drawer under the bed in the basement is worth a lot of money don’t let it get lost or thrown away!!!!!!!
with the cobra movement, I have a real fond memory of meeting Robin Williams! I met Robin Williams in the Rijks museum in Amsterdam on the queens birthday celebrations on the 30th of April in the 1990s we were looking at a Karel Appel painting that was a mix of a pear and female genitals robin Williams looked at me and said I don't know if I should eat it or F###! it!! you know that feeling when laughter takes you over and your legs turn to rubber! that's what happened to us at that moment we were literally on the floor rolling about laughing! a one of a kind meeting with a great mind that left us way too soon. it was a double whammy that day because earlier I had coffee with Christopher lee that morning...
Does the auction house provide the back story on these items? It would be helpful. Also, I know the proceeds from this auction will help you get a new home and property. Will it have mother-in-law quarters? I think you mentioned wanting your Mom to live with you eventually.
@PatriciaTess & Lonnie & This Spot I believe there’s a drop down menu to select the type of currency you wish to be displayed. Of course the auctioneer will be speaking in Canadian funds, but I think you can set it so your screen shows American.
UV light is good for healing and carbon arc lamps have lots of UV you can get really bad sunburn from it a real problem with theater workers of the day.
the Edison Amberola model 30 here in Europe/the Netherlands not really a great lot in an auction in that state without the front grille rarely it will go past 150 euros. in America/Canada it's another story.
@Stephen A. You need to have about four monitors so you can keep track of everyone you watch! Good morning! I don't usually read all the comments, but this caught my eye.
17th-century books the more popular the title the more of them are around one of my side gigs is restoring antiquarian books using the minimal intervention method the book comes back looking as worn as it did when you gave me one difference however it is now no longer falling apart and it works like new it just looks old and decrepit. most other restorers of books will discard the old cover and approximate a cover that in my eyes just looks new with my work all the old stuff goes back or I use 300-year-old leather or parchment to make a new cover. to come back to the alexander the great books here in Europe not a chance for an auction bid over 100 euros well, here in Europe roman stuff is the real old stuff in Canada and the rest of North America 1890 is pretty old! so books like this do better on your side of the pond!
I have one of the pith helmets of john Anthony west the egyptologist egyptology loves to hate! he was a friend of mine also if you ever watched the UK Time Team the archeologist Phil Harding was a staple on the show I have on of his hats I have a thing for headgear and I have many historical hats and caps.
JUST noted the Route 66 sign. Seems odd to see in a Canadian auction when the actual highway is only a few miles from me here in San Bernardino, California.
Melissa must be very worried about her husband’s health. He looks like he hasn’t slept in a week? Great show all around, but if he doesn’t take his foot off of the gas every so often, he’s going to keel over. Lack of sleep can kill a person indirectly.
MrsT A Ah, well, you would certainly know from firsthand experience. But since dust affects him like that, they do have those specialty respirator masks with the replaceable filters that sit to either side of the nose. You look like something from outer space, but you don’t end up with respiratory issues afterwards. The little masks that we run around in to not catch Covid are NOT sufficient for the task. I don’t understand why he did the musicians house without that? He put himself and his workers at risk. Out here we’re have CalOsha and they have guidelines for safety and filtration equipment. Don’t know what Canada has but I’m sure they have an equivalent.
@@nickandlaurihyde I'm not sure. Luckily we can all just make our own decisions still based on what we wish to do. At this point anyway. I'm sure he'll be okay.
MrsT A I hope so too. He’s a special guy and a mover and a shaker, so I only want the best possible outcome for him and everyone involved. An ounce of prevention as they say.
Why was Alex "Tsk-ing" so much with sentence he pronounced? Was he thirsty? Anyway, good luck to him and I hope his son sells all of his beautiful art.
I think every picker has retirement items somewhere I want to stop my day job hopefully at 50 a mere 3 and a half years away from now I have Rembrandt etchings Picasso pen doodles I have Persian glass items gold, gold! GOLD!! I got the South American el Nino red gold items and coins (eh, not at home folks it's useless to rob me!) from South American red gold. dinosaur footprints I have avian pterosaur footprints Han dynasty human figures and stacks of silver!
My brother threw away my signed, numbered, & verified Salvador Dahl, "The Entrepreneur" lithograph. I didn't like it, but it was an investment. What a loss.
OMG, Stephen has real talent. LOVE his paintings. And that's from one artist to another. :-)
Did you know he has a channel? It’s “Stephen Draws”
I love Stephen's lion painting. He looks like he is getting ready to sneeze. It would bring a smile to my face every time I looked at it. The cow is nice too.
I hope 🤞 this auction goes over a million dollars, as you have so many priceless articles for sale. Your mother’s painting is beautiful. I would love to see more of her artwork. Stay safe and well yup and your family are in my thoughts, prayers and heart. Fran from a mountain in Tennessee!
Interestingly the thing that caught my eye was was the painting of the barn. I really liked it a lot. And then you said your Mom painted it. Amazing! Please let her know I loved it.
I now see where Stephen’s talent comes from. My mother was the artist in our family also. Thankfully I have been told that she passed some of it on to me. 😊I love the picture that your mom painted. ♥️ I also love Stephen’s work, he is quite a talented young man.
I didn't know that your Mom was such a good painter. That is a very nice picture.
She dod the painting of the potters house as well :)
Your mother’s painting is beautiful. Can you show more of her pieces sometime, please?
Your mom and Stephen are talented. Love your stuff.
Love the little girl wearing her mom’s shoes! So many Awesome items as Always❤️
Mom's painting is beautiful, DO NOT SELL IT. It's an heirloom to pass to your children!!
Incredible collection! Incredible items. Great opportunity for buyers!
I think it would be nice if many of the items went to museums so they could be enjoyed by more people. I don’t know how the auction house reaches out when they get a collection like this, but I went ahead and sent the link to the auction and to the new article to the St. Louis Art Museum.
Thank you so much for sharing your world. It is fascinating.
I love your mom's painting the best ....I love old barns. She does really well
I love the "Tumi", the green ceremonial knife. I was so fortunate to see an Inca exhibit in Montreal in the late '80s. I am sure it will sell much higher than I can bid but I will try. Best of luck with the auction. I hope people realize the value of the ancient items. Hi from Sue in NB.
Your Mom is very talented! Very impressive artwork!
Some of the artwork is pretty good. I hope you get a good price for it all. I will be watching from Melbourne Australia
I contacted the National Museum of the American Indian in NYC about the original translation book. I hope it is worthy of their collection. There are a lot of good items in this auction lot. If your son's painting of the cow is your favorite, you should keep it! I like it too😊
Your mum is an amazing artist now I see where Stephen gets his talent from.
You should put the link to the auction website in the description area of the video
YEah its not on his website either....
Yes. Directly to the collection even. People are having trouble finding the correct auction once they get to the Kastner page.
I hope every museum in the world has access to information about your auction, and can bid. Good luck, I hope you makes lots and lots of money, enough to pay for the new cafe and then some. I really like you and your family. You entertain me and I look forward to your postings .
I don't trust museums. My mother donated a couple of rare military pieces to a military museum after my dad died. They schmoozed her to get them and they assured her they would be thrilled, happy, share with the public etc yadda yadda. We wanted to keep them in the family, but mom was losing it at the time and donated. Bastards just turned around and sold them to a collector for money.
Your mom is a fabulous artist!🎨
MY, MY, GOODNESS, ALEX, what amazing things you find to sell, TOTALLY AMAZING!!!!!! Do take care. (FL.)
some of the most amazing artifacts ever found...at your store!! Good luck with the auction, i'm sure it will go o.k.
What a great collection!
Great Stuff Alex. Thanks for sharing 😀👍❤🇨🇦🎉🎉🌞💯
Enjoyed. Great items!
Wonderful items in the auction!
Your Mom paints really well. Many interesting objects and such a mix. I see you put the childs cash register up for sale it will be interesting to see how much it goes for. Keep Safe ❤keep Well ❤
Miss the art gallery most quilt group mostmost durning look down show more l agree fellow artist👩🎨📸🎞🔋📖✂️📐📏📍🧶🤗😷😇
🌫🏵🌱⚘🧱🐇🌲🌳🐦l lovegemastones Bennett collecting as youngster hope the museum get it for all to enjoy 😉
I have now signed up for the auction! Fingers crossed 🤞 gonna try win the religious item 💛🙏💛
The cow 😍 super cute
Kastner's must love your business!
Fascinating 👏🏻
That Mayan mask reminds me of that show Tin Tin they had an episode with a mask like the Jade ceremonial mask
I just bought an bound year full of the dutch illustrated basically a copy of the London illustrated news it's a print of 1868 and there's a beautiful illustration of eng and chang the original Siamese twins I know that print alone is worth about $200 can, so I did a great job at just about $5 can in euros!
I shared the ship in a bottle to the fan group, I'm sure the bids will go up
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I have several Aztec pipes they are made of stone and have the shape of an Aztec priests head now, I'm a smoker and not the chain type I only smoke in the evenings, not during the day the smoking rules are that you need to smoke outside everywhere and I'm not a fan of the cold and the wet so I stopped smoking during daytime well, back to the pipes I use one of them! the Aztec tobacco was similar to cigar tobacco only they marinated it what they did is that they made honey or fruit wine and re-humidified the tobacco with that fluid so, I cut cigars in thin strips and re-humidify with mead and then smoke that pipe they also mixed a local herb that's similar to rosemary so I use actual rosemary and its an interesting tasty experience I even let a non-smoker friend try a non-inhaling puff he said ''that's something I could get used to nice taste bro!'' that jaguar statue would have a similar mix of tobacco and herbs burning in that little dish the room it was in would smell like someone was cooking up something good!!
aaa! really?! that Jacques Cousteau picture is in my archive! I was nuts about him in my childhood and my sugar auntie arranged for me and Jacques to meet on the calypso in the mid 1980s and he signed this very picture I also got a handful of ancient Greek coins from Jaques he literally opened a drawer and grabbed a batch of coins and gave them to me!
I still love my unrelated sugar auntie she's now nearly 80!
she was/is one of those old-money families that can go everywhere and anywhere with connections everywhere Agatha Cristie style she couldn't get kids so she kinda adopted me instead and went traveling in my summer vacations between my age of 8 and 20 and we went everywhere are there other 12-year-olds that have been to Antarctica! or the north pole?! and pretty much every continent in between?! I'm done traveling I did all that between the ages of 8 and 20! I'm pretty happy as an internet couch traveler now and telling my stories to you guys!
POW art is just great for my phonograph collection I'm still waiting on that POW made portable gramophone I know a lot of them made an Italian friend of mine who's also a Canadian of Italian descent his father was in a British POW camp and his father made an art deco portable gramophone and he's an antique phonograph collector so, his father made the perfect inheritance gift to him! he said to me that since none of his kids are interested that the machine will go to me when he dies (he's 75) I hope he sticks around for a long time I like friends better than stuff and we are just custodians of that stuff to keep safe for the next generation well, that's basically what collecting is!
I do have trench-made gramophones one is made out of ammo box parts with filing cabinet handles the other is made out of Belgian military bread boxes both were made during WWI one plays one does not as artifacts and relics they are both priceless there's only one of each in existence!
Already got bids in on a few items... now to see if they hold up...lol
Due to the lipstick photos in the background at the beginning I thought for a few moments he was coming live from Walgreens/cvs
The little girl trying on mother's shoes would be adorable as a fountain.
I think they contacted the embassies regarding the indigenous artifacts.
Can someone put a link to their auction? I've looked up Kauction, and found the website, but there are a lot of auctioneers and it's slightly confusing
I hope this auction is a huge success!!
I bid on many items and was outbid on all of them. Sad for me but great for you!
What happens after the auction? I found this late🤷🏼 will items still be for sale? And where?? Tnx
I wish they wouldn’t put stickers on items. At least not where the left over sticky residue would show. Those types of stickers can leave a ugly sticker residue that can be tricky to get off.
Alex the Charles Shultz newspaper cartoons strip in the drawer under the bed in the basement is worth a lot of money don’t let it get lost or thrown away!!!!!!!
with the cobra movement, I have a real fond memory of meeting Robin Williams!
I met Robin Williams in the Rijks museum in Amsterdam on the queens birthday celebrations on the 30th of April in the 1990s we were looking at a Karel Appel painting that was a mix of a pear and female genitals robin Williams looked at me and said I don't know if I should eat it or F###! it!! you know that feeling when laughter takes you over and your legs turn to rubber! that's what happened to us at that moment we were literally on the floor rolling about laughing! a one of a kind meeting with a great mind that left us way too soon.
it was a double whammy that day because earlier I had coffee with Christopher lee that morning...
I would love to see those original language books go to the band. Is there any chance of contacting them to give them a heads up.
I love the Siamese cat pic on the wall. The Cherry Ames books are a good surprise! Book dealer taking them?
I have a few cherry Ames books In my collection that were my aunts. I remember reading them when I was a kid.
“Are you for scuba?” 😂😂😂
Does the auction house provide the back story on these items? It would be helpful.
Also, I know the proceeds from this auction will help you get a new home and property. Will it have mother-in-law quarters? I think you mentioned wanting your Mom to live with you eventually.
Wow your mums picture is amazing
I really like the cow and the ostrich!
Did the ship in the bottle sale ?
Hands up if you read the thumbnail in Brad Pitts voice?! “WHATS IN THE BOX?!”
There is an old cartoon called wizards and the don xiote panting reminds me of the cover to that movie.
So does each piece come with a letter of authenticity?
Good question.
There is paperwork for the pre columbian artifacts
Alex can we have link to auction house?
Google Kastner Auctions Edmonton.
@@franceswatts4001
Thanks!
TY Can I buy things on K Auctions if I'm in the USA quest i pay for the shipping
@@wendy54321 Thank you
Just remember the difference in money value.
Your bet is in Canadian Dollar.
@@annakoch9972 Thank you I should look out for that difference's
@@annakoch9972 Bet or bid ?
@PatriciaTess & Lonnie & This Spot I believe there’s a drop down menu to select the type of currency you wish to be displayed. Of course the auctioneer will be speaking in Canadian funds, but I think you can set it so your screen shows American.
I hope the auction stickers come off easily without damaging anything?
Use a little bit of goof off.or on a glass, pottery or ceramic. You can use rubbing alcohol.
UV light is good for healing and carbon arc lamps have lots of UV you can get really bad sunburn from it a real problem with theater workers of the day.
Would love the religious item just wished I could bid, 💛🙏💛
Cool pic of an effigy.
technically, the roll has just one groove, a standard record has two, one on each side, as they are continuous, it's just the one per side.
Which auction is this stuff on
Kastner Auctions, Edmonton. It’s the Stan Reynolds Museum Collection.
Good Morning 🌞
😳😳😳 they stuck stickers on everything???
Your mom is very gifted; she's a Canadian Andrew Wyeth (maybe Andrea Wyeth?)
You seem to be keeping Kastner Auctios going. Why not buy them? Hope you don´t lose out with this auction.
the Edison Amberola model 30 here in Europe/the Netherlands not really a great lot in an auction in that state without the front grille rarely it will go past 150 euros.
in America/Canada it's another story.
UGH, I missed this live chat while watching your Part 4 video. 🥰
@Stephen A. You need to have about four monitors so you can keep track of everyone you watch! Good morning! I don't usually read all the comments, but this caught my eye.
I did the same thing.
@@marideathydeelz5334 😀
@@sharonlouisedoud9769 Good afternoon ! ❤️ My problem is that I only have one 10.1 inch screen to use. 😊
Same here😎
17th-century books the more popular the title the more of them are around one of my side gigs is restoring antiquarian books using the minimal intervention method the book comes back looking as worn as it did when you gave me one difference however it is now no longer falling apart and it works like new it just looks old and decrepit.
most other restorers of books will discard the old cover and approximate a cover that in my eyes just looks new with my work all the old stuff goes back or I use 300-year-old leather or parchment to make a new cover.
to come back to the alexander the great books here in Europe not a chance for an auction bid over 100 euros well, here in Europe roman stuff is the real old stuff in Canada and the rest of North America 1890 is pretty old! so books like this do better on your side of the pond!
The miniature cash register appears to be a salesman’s sample.
What dit jou do with the karel Appel painting?
At the store
Just to the right front og the RCAF Doll was that a Winston Churchill Toby Jug?
Yes it was
I have one of the pith helmets of john Anthony west the egyptologist egyptology loves to hate! he was a friend of mine also if you ever watched the UK Time Team the archeologist Phil Harding was a staple on the show I have on of his hats I have a thing for headgear and I have many historical hats and caps.
The cow to me looks like his hair do❣️😉💋😜🤔
Hello from Florida
JUST noted the Route 66 sign. Seems odd to see in a Canadian auction when the actual highway is only a few miles from me here in San Bernardino, California.
Melissa must be very worried about her husband’s health. He looks like he hasn’t slept in a week? Great show all around, but if he doesn’t take his foot off of the gas every so often, he’s going to keel over. Lack of sleep can kill a person indirectly.
Allergies most likely.
He always looks like this when he's been cleaning out dusty houses.
MrsT A Ah, well, you would certainly know from firsthand experience. But since dust affects him like that, they do have those specialty respirator masks with the replaceable filters that sit to either side of the nose. You look like something from outer space, but you don’t end up with respiratory issues afterwards. The little masks that we run around in to not catch Covid are NOT sufficient for the task. I don’t understand why he did the musicians house without that? He put himself and his workers at risk. Out here we’re have CalOsha and they have guidelines for safety and filtration equipment. Don’t know what Canada has but I’m sure they have an equivalent.
@@nickandlaurihyde I'm not sure. Luckily we can all just make our own decisions still based on what we wish to do. At this point anyway. I'm sure he'll be okay.
MrsT A I hope so too. He’s a special guy and a mover and a shaker, so I only want the best possible outcome for him and everyone involved. An ounce of prevention as they say.
("Metate" has 3 syllables.)
Hope you are feeling ok. Your eyes look a little puffy.... allergies from the house?
Maybe "ordinary" allergy from the tree and flowers outside.
@@annakoch9972 you could very w beell be correct but I noticed the dark circles along with the puffiness too. Nice that we are concerned about him!😊
I still can't believe a museum actually sold all then pieces?
TFS!! 👍👍👍👍👍✌️❤️🙏🏼🇺🇸
Hello good morning 🌄.
Don't make yourself sick Alex......looking very very very extremely exhausted....im sure you realise. We all worry...
Why was Alex "Tsk-ing" so much with sentence he pronounced? Was he thirsty? Anyway, good luck to him and I hope his son sells all of his beautiful art.
Cool indian stuff. I amost a full sue indian & I got my blood in canada. Have you heard the last name Meckley.?
Do you mean Sioux?
Alex, I know you like to stay busy and keep things moving, but I hope you're getting a decent nights sleep. :-/
Judging from the bags under his eyes ... I'd say he doesn't get much sleep.
I hope you get better photos. Some I've seen so far let the beauty of the piece down.
I think every picker has retirement items somewhere I want to stop my day job hopefully at 50 a mere 3 and a half years away from now I have Rembrandt etchings Picasso pen doodles I have Persian glass items gold, gold! GOLD!! I got the South American el Nino red gold items and coins (eh, not at home folks it's useless to rob me!) from South American red gold.
dinosaur footprints I have avian pterosaur footprints Han dynasty human figures
and stacks of silver!
SCUBA self contained underwater breathing apparatus
Alex, you really need to get some rest. You look exhausted🥱
You need to get some rest!
Alex, you look like you need to sleep for a solid 9 or more hours. You look very tired.
I am very tired.
I emailed a couple Anchorage museums about the auction.
My brother threw away my signed, numbered, & verified Salvador Dahl, "The Entrepreneur" lithograph. I didn't like it, but it was an investment. What a loss.