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<p>[QUOTE="techbiker, post: 4472389, member: 60629"]I doubt it's a Jan Brueghel since the detail isn't there. Also probably not nearly as old. The nail heads are round and fairly consistent so probably post-1810 but sometime pre-1900. If you can't find any other less-intrusive dating methods, you could try popping out a nail from the stretcher to see if the shank is round or square.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.realorrepro.com/article/Nails-as-clues-to-age#:~:text=The%20earliest%20forged%20nails%20are,necessary%20to%20form%20the%20head." target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.realorrepro.com/article/Nails-as-clues-to-age#:~:text=The%20earliest%20forged%20nails%20are,necessary%20to%20form%20the%20head." rel="nofollow">Nails as clues to age (realorrepro.com)</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Also, either the stretcher bars are warped from age or didn't fit that well to begin with. The bottom stretcher is fairly knotty so probably not higher end. I believe a more expensive stretcher would have been CVG.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="techbiker, post: 4472389, member: 60629"]I doubt it's a Jan Brueghel since the detail isn't there. Also probably not nearly as old. The nail heads are round and fairly consistent so probably post-1810 but sometime pre-1900. If you can't find any other less-intrusive dating methods, you could try popping out a nail from the stretcher to see if the shank is round or square. [URL='https://www.realorrepro.com/article/Nails-as-clues-to-age#:~:text=The%20earliest%20forged%20nails%20are,necessary%20to%20form%20the%20head.']Nails as clues to age (realorrepro.com)[/URL] Also, either the stretcher bars are warped from age or didn't fit that well to begin with. The bottom stretcher is fairly knotty so probably not higher end. I believe a more expensive stretcher would have been CVG.[/QUOTE]
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