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Posted By: leon

Recently I bought a nice, original oil painting off of ebay. I got the painting and it had come out of it's frame in shipping. The frame had small nails and they scratched some paint off of the painting, around the sides but not on the main part of the picture. I brought it to a local art gallery that deals in fairly high end paintings....up to around 100k...not the super expensive ones. They looked at it for about 3-4 minutes and said they had someone they use to fix paintings, it would be about $150 to repair approximately 8" of scratches, all together. They also said it wouldn't hurt the value of the painting whatsoever...since the scratches were around the periphery....Totally different in our world....