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<p>[QUOTE="Lucille.b, post: 504088, member: 51"]First off, a total deal at $3. Wow!</p><p><br /></p><p>You have some info... you know it is less than Christie's minimum (what is that $5K?) so if you sell it, its not like you are accidentally letting go of a $200K item or something.</p><p><br /></p><p>You didn't post measurements, but it looks like a larger piece. I guess if it was me, I'd keep an eye out for sold Ebay auctions as comparables. There is an Ebay one that sold stating it was from 1899 (that one was in color) and it appeared to be reframed in a more contemporary frame. They were asking $800, but accepted $400 for a BIN. I actually like yours a lot more more, but not sure how the market values colored prints vrs non-colored.</p><p><br /></p><p>One tricky thing is that there are a zillion reproductions of his work. When you search Ebay under "Sold", one trick you may know, you can order from "Highest first" under "Sort" and this will bring up any older ones to the top of the list, since those would have a greater selling price. Not a whole lot of older ones on there under Sold right now --just the $400 one where they accepted a best offer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also there is a name for this kind of frame. (I want to say birds eye maple but I know that isn't it.) Maybe [USER=37]@verybrad[/USER] or others might know.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lucille.b, post: 504088, member: 51"]First off, a total deal at $3. Wow! You have some info... you know it is less than Christie's minimum (what is that $5K?) so if you sell it, its not like you are accidentally letting go of a $200K item or something. You didn't post measurements, but it looks like a larger piece. I guess if it was me, I'd keep an eye out for sold Ebay auctions as comparables. There is an Ebay one that sold stating it was from 1899 (that one was in color) and it appeared to be reframed in a more contemporary frame. They were asking $800, but accepted $400 for a BIN. I actually like yours a lot more more, but not sure how the market values colored prints vrs non-colored. One tricky thing is that there are a zillion reproductions of his work. When you search Ebay under "Sold", one trick you may know, you can order from "Highest first" under "Sort" and this will bring up any older ones to the top of the list, since those would have a greater selling price. Not a whole lot of older ones on there under Sold right now --just the $400 one where they accepted a best offer. Also there is a name for this kind of frame. (I want to say birds eye maple but I know that isn't it.) Maybe [USER=37]@verybrad[/USER] or others might know.[/QUOTE]
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