Antique Picture Frame

[livinitmn]

Can anyone provide me with information on this picture frame. I recently acquired while working cleaning asbestos out of an abandoned farmhouse as part of my compensation. I will be interested in selling it and have no clue about it. It is 18x20 and has a class picture from early 1900's I believe.

[Rauville]

Even though it dates from the early 20th Century, the damage is going to make it a hard sell. I would be happy with a $25+ offer.

(You have to give credit to those rural school teachers that educated and guided a diverse group of young people like that.)

[mart]

Rauville is correct on price !!  Pretty typical frame for that time and would have been considered expensive back then !! The decorative portion was done with a thin layer of plaster added to the oak frame !!  Neat picture !!

[cogar]

A little "fixin up" on that frame with some paintable caulking, gold paint and Old English and it would be worth $85.

[mart]

Thats what I use and works quite well if the owner is an artistic sort !!

[bigwull]

i,m better just keeping my mouth shut....

[cogar]

Antique or vintage picture frames such a the one in question really have no, per say, “antique” or “collectible” value and unless they are in a really deployable shape, ….. re-purposing them into firewood … makes no “cents” whatsoever.   

People buy picture frames for their own use based on two (2) criteria only, … and that is, … what the picture they have is going to look like when they put it in that frame … and does the frame “conform” to the other decorations in the room in which it is to be hung.

"Old/older" looking pictures should be hung in "old/older" looking frames.