Almost

My friend's mother passed away last year and my friend asked me to go through some the mother's stuff to see if it was of value.  I said sure, especially since now I have a lot of free time on my hands.  Well the other day she sent me a picture she found in the garage and asked me to look into it.  I could not find anything so I asked yesterday if there was a signature and so she sent me it to me.  It took a little bit this morning but I identified the signature of that of JH Sharp, a well know artist that was based in Taos, NM.  As I was looking around I found an article of someone who has a JH Sharp painting in their home, did not know the value, brought it to the Antiques Roadshow, and it was appraised it for $400.000.  I was like WOOHOO.  I was less excited about the value but more excited over possibly finding a treasure!  I love stories like that although I wish on one of my Salvation Army visits I could true Faberge egg or something like that!  Well long story short she sent me the original picture the other day and I only looked at it on my phone.  I did not realize that it was just a lithograph not a painting.  I said she still needs to have it checked out.  I know lithographs can do well also but there are so many variables.  I was still a bit excited but not as excited when I thought it was an actual painting.  In my text to her today I wrote, "I liked this game better when it was a $400,000 painting -lol".  Oh well :)