I have found great art at thrift stores. When in college at Fresno I found an original Ansel Adams. Not too long ago found two original paintings. One by a Haitian artist another by a Peruvian. And one of my favorite finds was a Tag Hauer that I at first thought was a knockoff for $2.50 at a thrift shop on vacation in Tahoe.
Not very likely I will find original founding documents in the PNW though.
Interesting. My mother’s vintage Levis were sold in Fresno!
We were not there, because we live in Wisconsin. But the sale of her beautiful collections brought nearly nothing. We were very disapplinted but withheld our criticism because we did not handle it ourselfves.
The lady who bought the pants told me that the prices at the sale were ridiculous (low). Many valuable things did NOT sell and I gave most of them to the lady who handled the sale. I did bring about half of her paintings by California artists home where I am having them reframed. But her books — some of them autographed 1st editions — were given to the library.
One item that sold out, however, was every hotel soap and shampoo that she’d collected from all over the world! Go figure.