One thing you could start doing @macrofossil, if you are up for doing some research, is to hold the paper up to artificial light and take a...
Wow great collection-- your mother had great taste! As others have said, these are something that the big auction houses would be interested in...
Are you located in Canada? Easily sellable at Canadian auction houses and would likely do well in the US as well. Value? Probably in the mid...
For future reference, a mezzotint is going to look more like an etching or engraving as they use similar method and produce a very different...
Looks to be Joseph and Potiphar or Persephone in French
You need to pull it out the frame and check if it is linen backed and a lithograph. It's a good sign that it is 27 x 41 though.
You don't really need a professional appraisal unless you are looking to insure it. I would Google around for different past auctions keeping in...
For everyone's information, on closer inspection it looks to be mostly hand painted, and most likely on an early plastic like celluloid not ivory...
Thanks for the responses everyone. Can anyone tell if these were hand painted or some type of print overlaid with paint? And can anyone tell based...
Two miniatures believed to be mid to late 18th Century. The handwriting on the back has written Marquise of Mailly and the Dutches of Crillon in...
Separate names with a comma.
