Amazing, but too rich for my blood. The most I ever anticipated paying for any DS memorabilia was $3,000. I placed a bid at the Festival for the original Angelique painting. I was outbid. This was either 1986 or somewhere or a year or two later. I was single and teaching. I figured if I could get it for the limit left on my credit card, i'd buy it. In 2006 I went as high as $800 for the original artwork from the first Ross paperback. Having grown up in Newport, the imagery tying in with my childhood was an extra incentive. I was outbid as well. Perhaps it was for the best. I bought a copy of the painting a few months later. The forgery, as far as i can tell is indistinguishable from the original and only cost me about $130. Most of that was for the framing and matting.
Still it's a very nice piece and obviously the result of painstaking work.
