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Message:: [QUOTE="popsycat, post: 1630517, member: 1904"]The boy in the blue suit is a copy of Gainsboroughs "Blue boy" The frame seems to be made  up of piano keys. Do you think this is 1930's? Often this type had a backing of a page from a really old book to make them look older than  they really were. I see you have rightly included it in the decorative category, but so many people are fooled, not you, into thinking they are older than they really are. I remember an episode of "Pawn Stars" when they called in an expert from the university to value a miniature. It was in the class of the "Blue Boy" but a Gainsborough lady,, again backed with old paper and surrounded by piano keys. He authenticated it as 18th century. I was shouting "oh no it is'nt!!!"[/QUOTE]