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Antiques! => Antique Questions Forum => Topic started by: smoss on April 22, 2004, 07:53:02 PM

Title: Picture
Post by: smoss on April 22, 2004, 07:53:02 PM

I inherited a framed baby picture from my grandmother.  The face and hands appear to be cut out from cardboard, there is a blanket in the frame and real hair.  

I know that my grandmother had 2 of these types of pictures and I know that she lost 2 babies (stillborn).  If these pictures are related to those babies, they would be dated around 1918-1920.  I know that the hair is not the hair of these babies.

Has anyone ever seen pictures like these?  Can you give me any information on them?

Thank you.
Smoss

Title: Picture
Post by: D&b antiques on April 23, 2004, 04:06:57 AM

:o  your' grandmother would have been raised in a time when these were popular.  their called mourning picture's. it's value would be $125.00 dollars. but at the right auction. you could double that value.