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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 26092, member: 25&quot;]I have sold many of these &#039;Piano key miniatures&#039; </p><p><br /></p><p>They are typically well to very well painted on ivory (very thin slices) and the surrounds are ivory. They are invariabky backed by pages from old books, although yours look like pages from relatively modern old books. Maybe they ran out of 18th C pages.</p><p><br /></p><p>General opinions that they are late 19th, early 20th C. French reproductions in the style or 17th and 18th C originals,with the old backing paper added to increase the apparent age. They are really antiques in their own right, now.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I was selling them they routinely cost about the equivalent of $100 at auction and I&#039;d get around $150 on ebay </p><p><br /></p><p>Yours look like good examples and normally very saleable, but with the recent uncertainty about new ivory laws and what they mean in practice in today&#039;s market, who knows what the market price is now?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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