He had always been fond of finding bargains in village jumble sales.
Despite being comfortably off, he could never resist them. To his way of thinking, it was amazing what could be picked up for next to nothing. On this occasion, having recently moved into a larger house, he was looking for anything he could use for the study he was setting up in their spare room. It was a large room that had previously been a bedroom. His wife had insisted that he give the walls a coat of paint, but beyond that, he could do whatever he liked. He had a chair, a desk, a bookcase and a filing cabinet already. He now needed something to make the space more personal. He didn’t want anything too modern. No, not at all.
He found something straight away. The cylindrical-shaped flower vase he was looking at would be a nice touch. It had an old-fashioned pattern in sepia, giving it an old-worldly look. It would be ideal for pens and pencils. He bought it.
Pleased with his instant find, he moved on. He now needed to concentrate on the main requirement, something for the room’s back wall. Currently, it was just a large bare area. He soon found a table with wall-hangings and a few small paintings, but nothing large enough to do the job. He was about to move on, when he noticed a large picture covered with a sheet, leaning against the wall behind. He asked the seller, an elderly gentleman, if he could take a look. What he saw when the sheet was removed, literally made his heart leap!
It was an old oil-painting that had seen better days, but had just the right feel of ‘times-gone-by’ that he was after. It was fairly large, just right for his wall. It showed a man and a woman, both dressed in black, with large, white ruffs. He guessed it was a scene from around the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries. He bought it for a song and couldn’t be happier.
When he got it home, his wife liked the pencil and pen holder, but didn’t think much of the painting, but she was happy that he was happy. On the following day he spent time putting it up in his new study, just where he wanted it. He stood back admiring it for a while, before calling his wife in. They stood and looked at it together.
What neither of them knew was that some thirty-odd years ago, two thieves, both dressed in police uniforms, entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts and left with thirteen pieces of art valued at around half a billion dollars. To this day, none of these have ever been recovered.
One of these pieces was an oil-on-canvas painting, titled ‘A Lady and Gentleman in Black’ by Rembrandt.
In the whole scheme of things, it really is best that they know nothing of that.
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