La Disputa

Ok, so you know that program on tv where people go on to determine if some object they own is crap or something that costs millions of dollars?  It is all in sadistic fun; you can watch how people’s faces fall when they discover their mother’s old treasure box costs $200.  However, once in a while, someone brings something that is actually worth something.  Some old lady brought in a what looks like an authentic Brueghel the Younger painting (d.1620).  Apparently, she had bought for less than a thousand bucks in the 1950′s from some idiot dealer who had no idea what he had.  And so it goes.

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