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<p>[QUOTE="Snowman Cometh, post: 11337711, member: 83302"]A few days ago we went to a thrift store and they had 9 Steiff Membership Bears (tiny in boxes). My wife collects Steiff and she wanted to see them. The woman takes them from the case, and my wife starts opening and inspecting them. I SWEAR if I didn't intervene we'd still be there as she tried to decide which to buy. I just bought them all. We received a lot of points for that sale. Since we buy from that chain of stores a lot we also had a get half off any one item. We needed to use that before the end of the year.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is very large 24" x 36". My photography is awful. Below the signature it's written Paris 1966.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]541386[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This is much smaller and not done by the same artist. The names are obviously different.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]541387[/ATTACH]</p><p>After the half price (the big one) and the points, these two were $9 total. That's a bargain.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would guess if you went to Paris this is the type of art that was being sold everywhere. When I took my wife in the early 2000s (she wasn't thrilled by the city), we bought two beautiful watercolors from a street artist. We did pass an accordian player on one of the Reine bridges.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Snowman Cometh, post: 11337711, member: 83302"]A few days ago we went to a thrift store and they had 9 Steiff Membership Bears (tiny in boxes). My wife collects Steiff and she wanted to see them. The woman takes them from the case, and my wife starts opening and inspecting them. I SWEAR if I didn't intervene we'd still be there as she tried to decide which to buy. I just bought them all. We received a lot of points for that sale. Since we buy from that chain of stores a lot we also had a get half off any one item. We needed to use that before the end of the year. This is very large 24" x 36". My photography is awful. Below the signature it's written Paris 1966. [ATTACH=full]541386[/ATTACH] This is much smaller and not done by the same artist. The names are obviously different. [ATTACH=full]541387[/ATTACH] After the half price (the big one) and the points, these two were $9 total. That's a bargain. I would guess if you went to Paris this is the type of art that was being sold everywhere. When I took my wife in the early 2000s (she wasn't thrilled by the city), we bought two beautiful watercolors from a street artist. We did pass an accordian player on one of the Reine bridges.[/QUOTE]
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