Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1891 — Profits of Picture Collecting. [ARTICLE]

Profits of Picture Collecting.

Mr. Seney vouches for the tr jfh of the statement that he rea'.iaed a round SIOO,OOO frottt from his latest picture sale. He was occupied for nearly six years in making the collection, and he has a right to boast of the intellectual delight he has realized from his venture, as well as its success from a purely commercial standpoint. Mr. Seney is of the opinion that if a man is abl6 to put $300,000 or In the com se of four or five years into paintings and then sell them at 20 or 25 per cent advance, he is doing an honorable business operation, and he Is getting his dividends in the investment every day in the delight ex peris enced in choosing the pictures.