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Old 01-30-2009, 11:37 AM
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Default Babe Ruth advertisement piece

Posted By: davidcycleback

Nice looking wall display piece, though they wouldn't put that much writing on a sign (especially a road sign!). Some items you have to value purely on their eye appeal, enjoyment you get out of it as a furnishing.

I remember a guy asked me to look at a photo that hung from his wall for several years, and I told him that it was a reprint. He complained that he paid $20 for it thinking it was original. I said if he displayed and enjoyed it several years, he got more much for that $20 of use of the photo. He thought about that and agreed. I asked what he was going to do with the photo. He said he was going to put it back up on the wall.

If the guy had stored the photo the entire time in a box in a dark closet, or purchased it strictly for resale profit, then I'd say he was out the $20.

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