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<p>[QUOTE="808 raver, post: 694437, member: 4654"]Half the problem is the plaque is very dirty, it's been hanging over a open fire for many years in it's past so there is coal tar residue all over it, I don't really want to try and clean it in fear I'll do damage but it hides a lot of the detail. I'm resigned to knowing if it isn't in Giusti's records then it might just be classified as a 19thc Italian carving thus reducing it's value. If that's the case then so be it, I like having it on the wall but if it's worth £10,000's then I'm not wealthy enough to justify keeping it, a new bathroom is well needed lol. I hold on to the knowledge that the piece has a good age, I have many antiques and this piece looks to me nearer 1850 than 1880+ which would put it earlier than school. I don't understand Italian and lots is lost in translation as I've found out when I spoke with the university that Giusti worked at when I was doing my research before, what we managed to glean was it resembles plate 140 in Giusti's records but we didn't get any names or titles with the people we spoke with so contacting the Siena municipal library and asking them to look in the "Memoir of Memories" (the 3 volumes of Giusti's work left by his wife) might be a nightmare, if the V&A contact them they might just have someone who speaks Italian and being the V&A they will probably take them more seriously. For me, it's not so much the money (although it would come in handy) it's finding the lost work or ruling it out[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="808 raver, post: 694437, member: 4654"]Half the problem is the plaque is very dirty, it's been hanging over a open fire for many years in it's past so there is coal tar residue all over it, I don't really want to try and clean it in fear I'll do damage but it hides a lot of the detail. I'm resigned to knowing if it isn't in Giusti's records then it might just be classified as a 19thc Italian carving thus reducing it's value. If that's the case then so be it, I like having it on the wall but if it's worth £10,000's then I'm not wealthy enough to justify keeping it, a new bathroom is well needed lol. I hold on to the knowledge that the piece has a good age, I have many antiques and this piece looks to me nearer 1850 than 1880+ which would put it earlier than school. I don't understand Italian and lots is lost in translation as I've found out when I spoke with the university that Giusti worked at when I was doing my research before, what we managed to glean was it resembles plate 140 in Giusti's records but we didn't get any names or titles with the people we spoke with so contacting the Siena municipal library and asking them to look in the "Memoir of Memories" (the 3 volumes of Giusti's work left by his wife) might be a nightmare, if the V&A contact them they might just have someone who speaks Italian and being the V&A they will probably take them more seriously. For me, it's not so much the money (although it would come in handy) it's finding the lost work or ruling it out[/QUOTE]
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