Antique picture frame auction

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I should print that pdf out! then when a customer comes in and asks for a mat only because they're gonna get a frame at a flea market i can show them that I can beat the price of #130! That looks like the typical frame i get asked to cut down......

I'm also gonna reconsider cutting down old frames, maybe I can "trade" theirs for 50% off a new frame :)
 
OMG

I`m in love with most of these!!! I really like the "over the top" examples,like those Eastlake ones.I especially want #97,LOVE those corners....Looking at the auction estimates though?:eek: Ahh well...such is life. Ebay,and Antiques roadshow are ruining my fleamarket/yardsale treasure hunts these days....L.
 
:( I can't seen to read the file. I get an error message - "The file is damaged and cannot be repaired".

:help:

Scrub that. Updated the reader and now all is revealed.


Great source for reference. Thanx for posting it Jerome.:)
 
Those frames look awesome and look VERY MUCH like the antique frames I've been collecting for the past several years. I feel I am vindicated in offering thesse frames to the Public. Many of my artist customers like them. I LOVE the fact that the frames offered in that auction have the same gaping corners and chips that the ones that I have do.

All is good!

Wendy
The Art Corner
264 Washington Street
Salem, MA 01970
978-745-9524
artcornersalem@verizon.net
www.theartcorner.blogspot.com
 
Looking back--I see stuff like this all the time at the flea markets and antiques fields all the time. The prices quoted here for this auction are outrageous! Good for them, and goos for ME! Maybe I can link onto that kind of pricing! By the by, I've sold a few of my antique frames to Hunt Slonem! GOOD link, there!

Wendy
The Art Corner
264 Washington Street
Salem, MA 01970
978-745-9524
artcornersalem@verizon.net
www.theartcorner.blogspot.com
 
I curious about the market and use for frames like these.

Who buy's them?

If you owned one would you restore it or leave it as is?

Would you wait for a piece of art to frame that would fit? That could take forever!

Giclee prints could be made to size but would a new giclee be congruous with an antique frame?

Doug
 
Restore? Maybe...more likely"have fun with"! Unless valuable very high quality. As for filling them,I would create something.....Fun stuff! L.
 
There are a number of well known firms in New York that have made handsome profits from collecting old used frames and restoring them to original new condition such as Lowe and Eli Wilner. Some frame designs lend themselves better to cutting and or extending than others. They can insert a block of wood, hand carve the extensions to match perfectly, prior to gessoing and regilding. Fully restored frames can easily be in the six digit range depending on original maker, size, rarity, etc.

And yes, some designers will use these frames for paintings they have..... just as is... or "touched up" just enough to fill in the gaping losses.
 
It's all in the presentation folks. Most of those frames will be sold in the over $1,000.00 range, yet if we had one and tried to sell it for five hundred, we would get the look.

That would all change radically if we didn't have just one frame, but a five thousand square foot store that was full of them. Each frame hung on a wall with a little card giving the historical history of it, the store would be more like a gallery and would be carpeted, have the proper lighting, classical back ground music and so fourth.

Then there is the location, lets put it in a prime location on Manhattan Island. There, the prices would start at several thousand and skyrocket from there.

The same snob shop in San Diego, would have trouble surviving if it's prices started at five hundred and nothing over four or five thousand.

It's all location, then it's just smoke and mirrors.

John
 
JFeig said:
There are a number of well known firms in New York that have made handsome profits from collecting old used frames and restoring them to original new condition such as Lowe and Eli Wilner.
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Well if you like the .pdf there's a great book about the Lowe empire called "The Secret Lives of Frames." Unfortunately costs money but is a good read that will restore your faith in the picture frame as an artform.

All of which reminds us that a picture frame that costs less than the art it holds is just an insult. Except of course for the poly frames I sometimes put around my art, but even then I'm not sure which way the insult goes.
 
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