* * A suspicion and an exacto knife and the kitchen counter * *

I saw this tonight at the Goodwill store.

I go to Goodwill about every day – and I know how to read the codes on the tags that say what day items are put out for sale.

This came out on the floor last week.

How did I miss it?

At least someone was kind enough to put this in the FRONT of the pack of Target store art wanna be cast-offs, and dead Grandma flower prints.  Otherwise I might not have seen it.

I put on my reading glasses and got out my cheesy plastic magnifying glass and I was pretty certain in was not a print.   I decided to pay the paltry sum and if it turned out to be nothing – I would just enjoy it.  It has that mid-century eames era sort look to it.

After dinner tonight – I located my exacto knife – placed this upside down on the kitchen counter and carefully tried to cut the brown paper off the back.

The cheesy matte covered up where a name would be – so I had to pry the cardboard filler in the frame up in order to reveal the bottom of the print.  Oh, yeah!  There was a nice penciled signature.

F. Fujita  1963 A.P. (artist proof)

I googled the artist and saw that he has made some really nice wood block prints.

They sell for about $250- ish .

Not a bad day for shopping.

(Heck, when IS it a bad day for shopping?)