So you're at a garage sale, and you have a gut reaction that something on offer has more to it than immediately meets the eye. What do you do? If you're like Pam Dwyer, an Arizona woman, you pay a few dollars, get the knick-knack, and wait till you get home to investigate your hunch.
Dwyer certainly did that, and in between a picture of a horse and the frame it was in she found a portrait of John Kennedy. Yes, that John Kennedy, the one with F for the middle name, the President one.
Not too many of those are left lying around, certainly not hidden behind random horse pictures. Not too many of the ones that are left lying around are done by a forger, either. Yet that's what Dwyer found when she researched the artist, who did time for writing forged checks.
While behind bars, the "creative writer" took up stained glass windows and, apparently, drawing. Somewhere along the way, he produced the portrait that Dwyer found tucked away in a homely frame on offer in a garage.
An appraisal listed the value at between $2,500 and $5,000. She plans to sell.
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