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For Almost 100 Years My School Was Home To A $1.5 Million Painting. Go Figure..

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Last week my school sent home a letter talking about all the valuable paintings the school board had just discovered laying around in their schools. One of the most valuable being the one found at my school.

A board member realized that some of the schoolsin my district had some very lovely looking paintings, so he decided to look into it to see what they wereworth. Turns out some of them were worth millions of dollars. They combed all the schools looking for vaulable painting and then they stumbled into my school where they found a painting, about the size of 2 (8.5" x 11") sheets of paper in the Principal's Office.

The painting was merely propped up against the wall on top of a drawer and was painted by one of the members of the Group of Seven, a famous group of painters from Canada, named Tom Thomson.

The story of how our school came in possession of the painting says that a teacher from the school had bought itfrom Tom Thomson while he was travelling in Algonquin Park and donated to the school. Long behold 2007 comes strolling around the painting ends up being worth $1.5 - $2.0 million dollars. Another big find was in a school auditorium. It turns out the walls were lined with paintings from a famous painter and added all together, the paintings are worth $5 - $10 million dollars.

However, these paintings have since been removed and have been placed in an air tight, high security vault until they find out what they want to do with it.

Posted by ch33rio5, 11/20/2007 3:51pm
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I wish I would find something like that lying around
Posted 11/21/2007 2:52am
Wow! What an incredible story. Hopefully, they'll do something good with some of the money.
Posted 11/21/2007 4:34pm
Expatriot: Yeah, this story has made me rethink all the junk I keep in the basement. Who knows, something down there might actually be worth something.
Posted 11/22/2007 1:12pm
brandi1leigh: I hope so too. I hope they invest some of that money into the others schools because even though my school is relatively new, the schools around my city are crumbling and are in really bad shape.
Posted 11/22/2007 1:15pm
That's too bad. If the paintings are really that beautiful, they oughta be on display somewhere for people to see. Hopefully they really will be able to make a mint off them and it can be used to improve the schools, and then the paintings end up somewhere good for people to look at.
Posted 11/28/2007 7:31pm
We got our school newspaper today and they addressed the painting again. My principal said it was sad that now that it is gone, students can't enjoy his painting when they come into his office. But he says in a way it is good because it won't be damaged and can be preserved forever. But their main concern is that it will get stolen.
Posted 11/29/2007 1:55pm
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