and we were at his house one day and there were several crates just sitting out on the front porch. Large crates. His son told me it was a bunch of his dads paintings, not prints actual paintings just sitting out on the porch. They were still there several days later when we were over there again.

I would assume that is was at least several hundred thousand dollars worth of art, maybe more? But it just sat out on their porch in crates for at least a week.