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Painting found in hulk fetches 200 million
Reporter: Rattlebones
Submission Date: 2003-12-15 19:54:46.0


Eath Station, Earth (Net-7) - An impressionistic painting depicting the first generation of a Terran, a Jenquai and a Progen ship by Joseph BenDahli sold at auction for just over 200 million credits on Monday after being stranded in a hulk for just over 200 years.

The 1 by 2 meter space rendering, which was thought lost in an early space faring accident, was found by a Progen Miner in Roc. Authorities are baffled by the location of the wreck and suprised that the fragile painting, made on rice paper and pigmented with various animal fluids, survived at all.

BenDahli, one of the greatest of the modern era's impressionists, is believed to have perished in the same tragic space faring accident.

The painting was purchased by the EarthCorps and will soon be put on public display outside EarthCorps Executive suites on Earth Station.