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by calvinmorrison·6y ago·view on hn ↗
There's a great bbc sketch show chewing the fat. One scene involves a working class Glasgow couple who wins 15 million on the lotto. They buy a van Gogh and hang it up in thier living room because the like it. Some thieves break in and steal a lava lamp and cutlery, as well as the painting because the frame might be worth a few quid. At the end of the scene, the thieves are selling the lava lamp at a flea market and casually rip the painting up to use as packing paper for the lava lamp.

It's a funny sketch but I really do like it.

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I think that Japanese drawings on thin paper which are today very valuable were used in the past (at the time they were drawn) as packing paper for porcelain.