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from the sufficiently-broad-definitions dept.
To me, it looked like a child's crude attempt at a mosaic. About a dozen small square tiles of different colours. Glued to the wall in a geometric design vaguely resembling a face with two square eyes.
It stood out in the otherwise empty and dingy Paris flat. Once my home, I was moving back in, after nearly 20 years away. My tenants, three young single men, were showing me round before they left.
"What's that?" I asked, pointing at the cluster of tiles.
"That's by Invader," my tenant replied. "He's a street artist. He's like a French Banksy."
I quite liked Banksy, but the young man must have seen that I didn't appear overly impressed by his French counterpart.
"You must leave this," he said earnestly. "One day it will be worth a lot of money."
Being British, I nodded politely - but inwardly I chortled at the notion that a few tiles stuck on a bedroom wall could ever be considered a work of art.
[...] It was bigger, but otherwise similar to the one I'd unceremoniously stripped out of my flat.
Invader was a global phenomenon, famous in New York, Hong Kong, London, and of course Paris.
Then came the real blow. To my horror, I learned that one of his works had sold for more than €200,000 (£178,000; $233,000).
So, I had this guy named Claude staying in my place who painted a picture on the wall...what was his name, dear? Oh, right, Monet. But I wanted the room painted fuchsia so I told the painters to get rid of it.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday November 04 2017, @03:22PM
The original stamp collector may be a help here. If they had some idea of the value or rarity of what they were collecting, then how they treated the stamps may indicate the relative value of them. But if they're collecting them in a typical OCD fashion (like in coins, making sure they have all the years represented), then what's been sorted and displayed may be of little use to you (unless a rare stamp happens to find its way into a display book).
Really, unless you're fully researching these stamps and then auctioning off this stuff on eBay in appropriate-sized lots (with any hypothetical valuable stamps sold separately), you're not going to get anywhere near the sale price of these stamps.