Thank you MandoMan, your precis was informative and valuable, thank you for taking the time to write it up.
Like LauraWilcox's post, we bought a very nice original, unpublished oil from a world renown artist at his home gallery in Laguna Beach, CA (famous mostly for painting sea life and covering massive utility buildings with murals). While it appraises for stupid-money, I am certain now that I will get very little of that, if any, down the road.
I hope to never again spend so foolishly, but I had come into a windfall at the time and was indulging my then-youthful need for splurging on lots of "cool stuff."
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