Costly papier-mâché
A British artist who made a papier-mâché sculpture from paper he found in a dumpster later discovered he’d cut up rare comics worth $30,000. Steve Eyre, a comic-store owner, was visiting an art exhibition in northern England when he noticed pages from a first edition of The Avengers—worth $15,000—stuck to the leg of Andrew Vickers’s sculpture Paperboy, alongside several other rare comics. “It would have been cheaper for Andrew to make this out of Italian marble,” said Eyre. Vickers laughed off the mistake, saying “money has not got such a value to me.”
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