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Message:: [QUOTE="EstatesAppraiser, post: 257204, member: 5128"]Marjorie Maddox Lynch was a native of Newfoundland, who died on 25 Jan. 2003, at the age of 77, in Sacramento, California.  Mother of four, and grandmother of six, she enjoyed painting and writing poetry.  Self identified as the "Internationally known Poet of the Flowers", this is the only poem of hers I could find: My Old Home Town The sea breeze gently wipes awayThe teardrops from my face,As I say my fond farewell,To this quiet place.The souvenirs that I have found,Will comfort me a bit,A rock, a nail, a piece of wood,A shawl my mother knit.These flower seeds from the flowers,That grew where our home once stood,Makes me wish that I could stay,I only wish I could.The old rusty horseshoe I found,Down by the well,It must have come from Dowdow, Daisy or Nell.I can hear the old piano,And a hundred dancing feet,To the tune of Sailor's Horn Pipe,At the returning of the fleet.There's one more thing that I must pack,Into my old suitcase,It's a painting of Bay Bulls Harbour,This oh, so beautiful place. Given this example of her poetry, my critique is that she was a better painter than poet.  Inasmuch as there is a complete dearth of information available about her artwork, my professional opinion is that your small painting's value is primarily in it's naïf charm. [/QUOTE]