Egyptian papyrus signed, can anyone please tell me about this?

Have you seen this? http://www.ebay.com/itm/363370403906

Seller either ignorant or dishonest. Looking at seller's other items, dishonest. Do not trust their description.

 

Trust this one: http//www.ebay.com/itm/263120978817

High copy for the original item in Egyptian museum & luxor Temple
Made in Egypt,

 

I have see alot of similar framed decorative and ‘tourist market’ ones around and for sale. Always very pleasant to look at but I would be very hesitant to spend any big money. I have family who also brought very ‘authentic’ looking but still just souvenir papyrus scroll paintings back from their travels.

 

Hi Bronwen, thanks for your quick response I bought this from a charity shop around 3 years ago, it was brought in from a house clearance it’s definitely hand painted I’ve been looking at it in great detail with my magnifier I use to look at my rocks( yes I’m a rock nerd)you can see all the imperfections eg: where the artist has gone a little over the lines with the colours

 

"From $25" to take a papyrus "manufacturing" tour next time one's in Cairo.

https://www.viator.com/tours/Giza/P...learn-Papyrus-making-in-Egypt/d23032-26835P50

Debora

 

Funny enough the most recent ones I saw was also at a charity shop. Also looked hand painted to me and might very well have been (but I don’t think that matters much in this case)

 

Thank you Boland
Would a souvenir hand painted be so detailed? This person would have taken a long time to create this to sell so cheap,
Or is that the norm?

 

Now, if what you want to know is what's going on in the scene... Thought at first they were catching birds but then saw they are fishing. Most I can say.

 

Hi Debora, ooooohhhh nooooooo!!! That’s totally killed the whole mysterious days gone by where these things were actually very valuable……. I thought I had a tomb raider moment gutted!! Haha

 

Have you looked at post 3 & followed the link?

 

I don’t know what the norm is..But I would still think ‘higher end’ souvenir.’ Have also seen some very nice detailed ones go for very cheap.. The ones my family got while on tour a few years ago were beautiful to look at.. There are other members on the forum that know a lot more than me

 

We also see them here regularly. Egypt is a popular tourist destination for us Dutch, not too far away.

Yes, and yes.

 

Ahhhh!!! That is actually quite shocking like it was unearthed in a box

 

Yes, unfortunately haha!!❤️

 

Hi all‍♀️
Well thank you everyone so much for taking the time to help me in my quest to find the holy grail haha!!! Saying that, it is still a beautiful picture and I’m sure someone will appreciate it more than I do❤️ If I do decide to sell it it will be a very modest price to start with on eBay……I promise not to buy a bag of £1.99 sand from the pound shop, dig a hole in my garden and do a photo shoot with the frame poking out of the grassy sand and put a £123,456,789 price tag on it
Take care❤️

 

In a lot of places, labor is so cheap that souvenir items are very often hand-made; hand-carved, hand-painted.
It is one factor that sometimes leads buyers to believe that souvenirs or outright fakes are genuine antiquities. It can be hard to believe that anyone would put that much work into a souvenir or fake - but if labor is cheap, it can be very cost-effective to do so.

 

Hi all_fakes,
This is crazy because everything on it has been painstakingly hand painted I’ve looked into it with my magnifier I use to look at my rocks and you can see the mistakes they have made so I did discover it wasn’t a print. Hats off to them though as it must have been many hours of work, just a shame it isn’t measured in time how valuable it would be then. Exploitation at its finest…..ruthless! Well on the plus side I now know what the picture is about it’s Lord Mena Fishing and Hunting Egyptian papyrus. Someone was selling it on MarketMix but because it’s sold I couldn’t see what price they paid.
Many thanks for your advice

 

I imagine that when one worker paints the same scene repeatedly, they become faster at it than we think. Or they may do it as a production line, the piece passing from one worker to another, each specializing in a different aspect of the painting.

I had a tote bag I bought at a crafts show that used one of these paintings as the front panel. Probably bought in the late 1980s. When it wore out I went to the maker to order another one, & she had an assortment of these for me to choose from.