WILLIAM E. RYAN tugboat watercolor signed prints - Help please! :)

Just got these and he seems to have some value but I can't find much.
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They are 10" x 14" print area.
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14" x 20" overall.
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> As you can see they are sealed in plastic wrappers and had been pinned up in someplace damp so posture wicked in around the pin.
> That being said, a mat should help this issue.
> Anyone have info on sales for such things of his?
Thank you!
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More detail available in smaller photos.
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Quite a few on ebay without signatures. Only one sold for $30.00. Found another similar sold for $25.00 on liveauctioneers. The only signed print I find is on ebay and offered at $199.00. Seems very ambitious for an open edition print. The subject matter is good but much more prominent artists than this sell for a lot less.

 

Hi! I didn't see the others but did see the 199 one.
It's really nice work and I'll keep them if they aren't worth all that much.
Is there a possibility that together they may be worth more?
Thank you!

 

They're lovely !!!
I've always admired a nice tug !! ..

 

o my...

 

Some of us have unclean minds!

 

& some of us are just to conservative & prudish..!!

But I ain't one of em !!

 

Ha!!!

 

Nice prints but sounds like the actual sold prices mentioned above are realistic and I wouldn't see much upside possibility due to the somewhat limited interest in the industrial side of shipping.

 

Thank you.
I've always loved tugs which is why I grabbed them.
I used to draw them in Hoboken, NJ when I was a kid.
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I wonder, since I am near where he lives, if that is a factor...

 

Could be deluxe edition vs trade edition

 

Not sure what that means for these.....

 

Nice prints, nice size.......if you don't get what you want for them, I'd frame them and keep!!!!!

 

Thank you!

 

Not so unusual for prints like these to be offered in different editions, sometimes as portfolio sets. There would be deluxe and trade editions. The deluxe edition would have a fancier presentation, a smaller printing, and might involve a feature like "signed by artist", and a higher price. No idea if that's the case here, but it's possible.

 

Ah! Thanks!

 

I really like these prints, King, but most prints can be a hard sell these days, especially if they're not signed originals.

 

Thank you!
I am happy they are hand signed as well.

 

Signed by the artist helps, but that still doesn't mean they're originals. It doesn't look like there are handwritten numbers indicating the size of the print runs? If that's true, it seems unlikely they're originals.

Artists sometimes have reproductions of their own work done, and then sign the repros.