I have been rummage sale shopping a bit lately. Found some amazing things, but very little of interest regarding the older record albums I look for.
But I found a Rembrandt. Yep, I recognize the painting, but I can not name it just yet. It is an amazingly detailed "lithograph imprint" done and hand signed by a printer and dated from 1894, from a printing shop in Ohio.
They asked twenty five cents for it and it was in a shit frame, but the mounting could easily cost a couple of hundred dollars to have done these days.
I tried to tell the guy that this might be worth more than a quarter (I had not yet removed it from the hideous frame and found the printer's proof marks). He told me that everything in that corner is old stuff that won't sell It's all less than a dollar. So, after scrounging through things a bit more, I came up with two middle of the road CDs and gave him ten bucks, "Keep the change."
Anyway, I doubt that a very common "lithe" from that era is actually valuable, it is very cool to see and it holds up quite well under inspection with my 15X photo loupe. The condition is flawless; well protected by the crappy frame someone blessed the thing with.