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$160,000 made on to paintings at Etobicoke's Goodwill |
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Written by Jason Duck
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Wednesday, 10 June 2009 15:54 |
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Two oil paintings that were left in a Etobicoke Goodwill bin sold at auction on Tuesday in Toronto for close to $160,000.
Both of the paintings were completed in 1895 by Peruvian-European master Federico del Campo, were purchased over the telephone by an unidentified European collector.
He squashed at least nine other bidders.
This was a real unexpected windfall, one of the largest donations in Goodwill history.
The paintings are beautiful, one is a sunlit Venetian backwater, the other a Venice canal and church scene.
They were first spotted last Autumn by a Goodwill employee at the charity's outlet located at Dundas Street West near Islington Avenue during a routine sorting of donations.
She saw them and thought they looked “special.”
And they certainly are special, well done to the Goodwill employee for spotting them and to Waddingtons's for negotiating a good price for charity and not charging full commission percentages.
This will make all of us want to check out the local charity shops to look for unexpected treasures...
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