Appraisal ID: 11294 Appraised On: Aug 25, 2006 Market Value: $ 600.00 Replacement Value: $ 800.00 APPRAISER COMMENTS: Artist: MURPHY, Ada Clifford. Watercolor. {Girl watering flowers at the window]. Circa 1900. Artist signed. Size: 13 1/2 x 18 1/2 in. Glazed and framed. A landscape, portrait, and miniature painter, Ada Clifford
Continue ReadingAppraisal ID: 11304 Appraised On: Aug 28, 2006 Market Value: $ 8,000.00 Replacement Value: $ 12,500.00 APPRAISER COMMENTS: Walter Emerson Baum was born in Sellersville, PA in 1884. He made his artistic mark as an artist, but he also served as a museum director, teacher, and critic. He studied at the PAFA, and with W. T.
Continue ReadingAppraisal ID: 10295 Appraised On: Jan 22, 2006 Market Value: $ 30.00 Replacement Value: $ 40.00 APPRAISER COMMENTS: Based on additional information provided, this figurine is made of clay. The maker’s mark belongs to a plastics manufacturer. Since plastic wasn’t used until the early 1950s, this figurine wouldn’t have been made until after that
Continue ReadingAppraisal ID: 11283 Appraised On: Aug 25, 2006 Market Value: $ 500.00 Replacement Value: $ 600.00 APPRAISER COMMENTS: This appears to be a pair of tinted silver print photographs of Yellowstone National Park, by Frank Jay Haynes, circa the turn of last century. Good condition, some fading and small crease to one photograph. Frank Jay Haynes [1853-1921],
Continue ReadingAppraisal ID: 11385 Appraised On: Sep 13, 2006 Market Value: $1,500.00-2,000.00 Replacement Value: $2,500.00 APPRAISER COMMENTS: Artist: BROWN, Harley. Watercolor on paper. "Little Chief Arapahoe." Size 8 x 10 inches. Framed. A Western painter and sculptor of figures and domestic animals, Harley Brown was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in 1939. His father was an amateur artist who
Continue ReadingAppraisal ID: 10299 Appraised On: Jan 21, 2006 Market Value: $ 6,000.00 Replacement Value: $ 7,500.00 APPRAISER COMMENTS: The description of this piece is somewhat misleading. This is not an original drawing. It is an “original” print (aquatint/etching) produced by Pablo Picasso. The subject is Dora Maar, who of Picasso’s favorites. Dora Maar
Continue ReadingAppraisal ID: 10234 Appraised On: Jan 14, 2006 Market Value: $ 400.00 Replacement Value: $ 500.00 APPRAISER COMMENTS: This artwork is described as a painting, but it is actually a print. A Glicee is a type of fine art print. It takes its name from the French term meaning “spray of ink.” It has
Continue ReadingAppraisal ID: 11261 Appraised On: Aug 18, 2006 Market Value: $ 650.00 Replacement Value: $ 800.00 APPRAISER COMMENTS: Artist: KIME, John. Acrylic with gold leaf. "Desired." Artist signed lower right, title on verso. Size: 63 x 57 in (160 x 145 cm). Glazed and framed. John Kime was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1967 and has lived
Continue ReadingAppraisal ID: 10265 Appraised On: Jan 18, 2006 Market Value: $ 2,000.00 Replacement Value: $ 2,400.00 APPRAISER COMMENTS: This painting of children in a field was painted by Realist painter, Adolf Sehring (1930-). In addition to painting, Sehring was also adept at bronze sculpture. We would like to point out that there is a Sehring painting titled
Continue ReadingAppraisal ID: 10263 Appraised On: Jan 18, 2006 Market Value: $ 40,000.00 Replacement Value: $ 50,000.00 APPRAISER COMMENTS: This is a snowy cityscape of Manhattan signed by Guy Carleton Wiggins, a painter and teacher from Brooklyn. Wiggons was an important Impressionist member of the Old Lyme art colony, best known for his landscapes of Connecticut (where he
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