Greg

I sometimes work for an Australian guy,Greg, who moves stuffs from one place to another. Moving out and in.

He is old, so polite and respectful. He usually doesn't talk while we are in the car driving from one place to another but he is very patient to my questions and curiosity in general.

Few days ago we went to a very big and beautiful house in a quiet area near a nice bay. The owners were moving some stuffs from the house to a storage. They knew of Greg so started asking a lot of questions from him. I couldn't believe that. Greg is like an artist. He was pretty familiar with wooden stuff. By looking to book cases and other similar stuffs, he could distinguish the types of them and was able to talk about the history of them as well.

When Greg saw a book case, realized that it dates back to 150 years ago and he knew the maker too. There was an aged lady who was the aunt of the owner. She agreed with him. She was the real owner of the stuff which were passed on to her. She was 88 years old and her aunt left a house with all the contents to her like the book case.

Greg was to estimate the price of the book case. He said $70,000. I was about to fly.
When later I asked him about the matter, he said:"it's much more.they don't know how precious it is". He called a friend of him who was the Auction buyer. He came in and was absolutely drunk of the stuffs over there. Probably they will sell the book case something like $100,000.
His friend was more conscious than him about the stuff. He had a look to a wooden stuff and said, this style is from Tasmania and dates back to 120 years ago. He was about to call some relatives of the House owner to receive some information about histories of the stuffs.

There were many more stories about that which i prevent writing them up.
Greg has driven the truck most of the times of his life .
He is crazy about paintings and some people ask him to go to auctions and buy furnitures for them! This is one of his jobs.