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Antiques! => Antique Questions Forum => Topic started by: livinitmn on January 16, 2013, 10:41:32 AM
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Can anyone provide me with information on this picture frame. I recently acquired while working cleaning asbestos out of an abandoned farmhouse as part of my compensation. I will be interested in selling it and have no clue about it. It is 18x20 and has a class picture from early 1900's I believe.
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Even though it dates from the early 20th Century, the damage is going to make it a hard sell. I would be happy with a $25+ offer.
(You have to give credit to those rural school teachers that educated and guided a diverse group of young people like that.)
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Rauville is correct on price !! Pretty typical frame for that time and would have been considered expensive back then !! The decorative portion was done with a thin layer of plaster added to the oak frame !! Neat picture !!
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A little "fixin up" on that frame with some paintable caulking, gold paint and Old English and it would be worth $85.
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Thats what I use and works quite well if the owner is an artistic sort !!
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i,m better just keeping my mouth shut....
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Antique or vintage picture frames such a the one in question really have no, per say, “antique” or “collectible” value and unless they are in a really deployable shape, ….. re-purposing them into firewood … makes no “cents” whatsoever. ;D ;D
People buy picture frames for their own use based on two (2) criteria only, … and that is, … what the picture they have is going to look like when they put it in that frame … and does the frame “conform” to the other decorations in the room in which it is to be hung.
"Old/older" looking pictures should be hung in "old/older" looking frames.