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Uh oh - Return or Don't Return - that is the "new" question
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Last edited by Shoeless Moe; 10-31-2021 at 09:53 AM. |
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Leave it
I vote for no restore but maybe frame with the top and bottom edges at 2 1/2 and 20..... would look pretty uniform and vintage then. Would have to find a way to do that without cutting or damaging the rest however. You can experiment by laying some some black paper at those levels to see what it would look like! Very cool piece!
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Better check this out
I Googled up the calendar for January 1896 and it doesnt match up.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Janu...hrome&ie=UTF-8 |
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A few alarm bells go off for me. The staples are brand new. It looks like the words were filled in with watercolor. It is very noticeable in the word ‘Guide’ and below in ‘For Sale here’. The apostrophe is missing between the h and s in Reachs. They did spell it Reach’s on the cover of their guides. See http://www.seanlahman.com/2014/08/20...-guides/#Reach. The 96 in the date is poorly drawn and not the same scale as the ‘18’. They should be on the same curve, but the 6 is much higher. Those numbers are also different styles. The nine looks like a g. That type of 9 is difficult to draw/write if you haven’t done it regularly.
The ‘For Sale here’ is very poorly drawn. The frame line has inconsistent widths. The black paint in the words ‘For Sale here’ is smeared across the red background. The two end designs are completely different from each other. If they capitalize ‘For’ and ‘Sale’ they would have also capitalized ‘here’. This was a professional publication and as such they would have used a quality printer. My opinion is that it is a pathetic fake.
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I would never have thought about checking that. Bud sadly Rocky is right and the Month's dates listed on that do not match up with reality. As well as the issues Michael points out I actually like the look but it does not seem authentic.
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The tribe has spoken.
Return. Thank you all! |
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For what it’s worth, it looks good to me—meaning I would have bought this and been mistaken as well, not meaning that it’s authentic. So, I like to think you are in good company.
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