Briton threw away sketches now worth 1 mn pounds

LONDON - A milkman, who threw in a bin 10 sketches by painter L.S. Lowry now estimated to be worth one million pounds, says that his children could paint better.

Ben Timperley, 72, was given the 10 drawings about 50 years ago and at that time Lowry wasn’t famous, Daily Express reported Wednesday.

I thought my children could paint better. I thought they were little sketches anybody could do. I put them in the bin. What an idiot, said Timperley.

Art experts say the works that were thrown away could easily fetch one million pounds today.

He (Lowry) was a shy man who always wore a black raincoat and carried a black umbrella even on a sunny day, Timperley was quoted as saying.