The Ugly Elk - is worth a pretty Pennny

Finding value in discarded items at a estate sale

It was pushed behind a door hanging forgotten. I felt bad for this painting, dusty and dulled from time. I bought it deciding on it as a last minute thought with a few extra dollars in my pocket. I took it home and cleaned up the frame although not cleaning the painting (Very luckily for me hint: leave painting cleaning to the pros) I lovingly called it the Ugly Elk and hung it proudly in my dinning room. Oh and I know its not an elk.

A cold winters night and the internet proved to me that it was not such a "Ugly Elk" anymore.   The painting was done by a Edith Harper, one of the foremost woman artist in the early 20th century. So now my "Ugly Elk", hangs still in the dinning room while I decide what to do with it. The upside I got alot more out of the painting then what I paid for it. The downside..I had have to have it insured.