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well i inherited this painting from my
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parents my mother
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wanted to give my father a gift that he
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would really love
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and he loved reading to his
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children
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books that had illustrations
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and this is one of the illustrations
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she knew how much she would love to get
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one of those so she decided that she
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needed to make this a secret so what she
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did was she saved five dollars from her
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food money every week
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for probably two years oh wow and didn't
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tell him this right and then he's either
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his birthday or their anniversary gave
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him a card that said you can go down to
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the schoonover studios and pick out a
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painting
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and he was
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elated to say the least oh how exciting
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and so we
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went down as four kids and the mom and
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dad and
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we chose a painting oh terrific what i
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remember this would have been in the
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early
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60s early mid 60s i'll say
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dark
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wooden floors paint i think there were
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big windows at one end
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and there was partially
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completed canvases here there was
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you know old probably i'll say discarded
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ones there and you know then there was
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there was sort of stacks of them this is
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the one with the clipper ship which he
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thought was extraordinary and then this
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galleon and
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i don't know he just
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he sat on that one and we all of course
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were thrilled oh that's great and we
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literally loaded it into the car and so
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it's been in your family ever since ever
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since and the title of the painting is
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privateers of 76 right the story was
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written by an author named ralph d payne
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who apparently wrote several books in
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the early 20th century and a lot of them
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relating to history on the back of the
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painting we have the inventory number
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for the painting which is number 1248.
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there is a label which actually is
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handwritten and maybe by schoonover
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himself that says it it's from chapter
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13 the title of the illustration is at a
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hail from the boat he went to the rail
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at the hail of the boat meaning the one
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below
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the figure on top comes to the rail now
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schoonover uh of course is one of the
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premier artists of the brandywine school
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and he studied with howard pyle who's
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considered the father of the school yes
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um at drexel institute in philadelphia i
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didn't know that and schooner was very
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good at wanting to get to reality so not
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only did he go out west but he also went
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down to the bayous in mississippi to
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sort of get a sense of how the pirates
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would have lived in that environment he
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had a house in bushkill pennsylvania in
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pike county which is in the poconos and
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he would spend his summers there but he
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used the landscape of that area in in
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many of his paintings you know i think
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that the card that mr schoonover gave my
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parents when they purchased this said
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that it was painted in bush kill is that
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what it's called
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yes bushkill pamphlet
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and certainly he was very popular
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especially in the early part of the 20th
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century because he illustrated such
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classic books as robinson caruso swiss
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family robinson and he did a whole
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series of books for um on zane grey
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western novels so he was quite into it
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as well as magazine illustrations he was
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born in 1877 and he actually lived in
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1972
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so he was primarily painting in the
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early 20th century and really i think up
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until he passed away the penny of course
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is oil on canvas and looks like the
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original frame this painting is dated in
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the lower right 23 1923 and that's when
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the novel was first published he is
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popular as an illustrator nationwide if
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this were in a gallery i think that it
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would sell in the range of
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125 000
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i know you're kidding me no i'm not
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getting there
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it's a wonderful yes
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it's a wonderful painting
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my father would be so thrilled
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to know that people were being turned on
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to illustrations
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and my mother would be really thrilled
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what you just said yeah
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well it means that her investment was oh
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yes oh yes
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wow
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there's a big surge of interest in
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illustrations i love this painting
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i love this painting
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