Bonehead Buys  

I feel better
Glassartist: I know you're talking about my faux Quistgaard desk. However, I didn't donate mine to starving children so you are a much bigger person that I!
I've only been "into" this mid-cent-mod furniture for a month, so I'm sure I'll be able to top this in the near future. Stay tuned for my future screw ups.

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I was a bonehead in the fact I did not know when I bought one a few years back, who designed a little mod lucite frog.WELL, yesterday on eBAY.Remaining,a bone head, I still know nothing about it other than one sold for three hundred and twelve dollars!

At the Salvation Army, I once mistook a poster print
.... for a genuine watercolor by a famous artist. Only paid 8 bucks, so I guess the worth the gamble.

tulips overlooked
many years ago -- before i was versed in mid-cent mod -- i bought a very nice, simple sofa from an large office that was clearing out some "old" furniture, making way for a major remodeling project. it wasn't until a few years later that i realized the nice, white tables i had seen with price tags ranging from $25 to $40 each were actually saarinen tulips [most likely the real deal, judging from the quality of everything else i had seen]. there must have been two dozen or more of them.
more than a few times since i've slapped my forehead as i recall the missed opportunity. if ignorance were a crime, i would have been jailed -- and rightly so.

tulip left behind
Year ago i bought a Saarinen tulip table a a yard sale for five bucks.
Used it that summer at a rental vacation house (outside by the bbq!)
Left it behind...oops

An "art piece" by a famous painter
I bought a painting that looked very familiar at auction. I got it for $50. Only when I was taking it home did I notice the "made in china" sticker on the back. Arf... 🙁
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azurechicken
Small world---I know the person who sold that $312 lucite frog. We go to some of the same auctions but she got that frog somewhere else. If I'd passed on it, there'd be two of us feeling very bummed out right now...

WOW
Spanky can you possibly ask her about the maker or designer?I noted she had minimal description...Thanks...