..the one I was hoping would be my fortune?
I have had it valued. For those who advised me and were interested, it is valued at a whopping incredible huge ginormous ....da da daaaah -
Dicko's deal has a few well painted victorian paintings with pathetic valuations - like it would cost more to reframe than it would to buy a painting that has obviously taken someone many hours.
Davina McCall did quite well to pass a painting in the queue and say
that is a dick van dyck ( and it was )
she did say she had spent the previous nine months looking at them.
When I first volunteered in our Oxfam bookshop I thought that really old books would always be valuable. It was such an anticlimax when I tried to value one that I was convinced would bring in thousands. It didn't work out like that. It had been mass produced and although over a hundred years old it was only worth about £20.
It's an original signed watercolour by the Welsh artist Chris Griffin in 1985. Born 1945 his painting style had changed quite dramatically over the years - his paintings have become bolder, more abstract.
If I had one of his more recent ones, I could put another 0 on the valuation, but unfortunately this is one of his earlier works, a nice Welsh landscape but not so popular these days.