Antique Mirror - how should I search for info

It came with the family home (c. 1870) so my husband isn't sure what generation put it up. He just remembers it being in his older sister's room forever. 21" x 27". The pink paint looks old. His sister was born in 1938.

 

Hi Bev,
I have a picture frame with the same molding but it is mitred in the corners it is from circa 1905.
greg

 

It must be oak underneath the Pepto Bismol paint. I'm thinking that was 1930s.

 

We're having a yard sale next Sat. What should I say - $20?

 

Thelmasstuff, I am not asking you to name a specific item -- this is merely a suggestion of a way to come to a price you are comfortable with --

Think of another item (or items) you plan to have in your sale which you would be comfortable pricing in the $20 range, be it/they a dish or a small piece of furniture or a rug.

 

Pricing this way is hard, because it all depends on what people are willing to put out in your area.

If you put $20, some one is going to offer $10.
I'd put $25 and take $20. But I'm in an area where this funky stuff painted pink, yellow, aqua is selling like crazy. Dealer across the street is getting good prices for painted items.

 

Early 20th century for this. I see mirrors like this sit with no takers at the thrift store for $10.00. Need to be fancier than this to get any interest around here.

 

Bev - I am thinking a bit earlier. Like the 20's. On my monitor, the paint looks less Pepto than "ashes of roses," which was very popular during that decade. Prop it up near a matching or complementary pottery bowl with some flowers. (It helps when you gussy things up a bit. )

 

This coming Saturday Bev? What time - I'll be there

 

Any attachment holes in the side molding? May have come off a 1920's Eastlake style dresser.

 

Speaking of pink...(skip this if you like, it's very OT)...down the street from me is one of those Big, porchy Victorian houses, which, when I moved here was painted Pepto pink. It was stunning. As if one had been clubbed in the head kind of stunning! And the people across the street have a flock (verily, a Flock) of plastic flamingoes to match.

A couple of years ago, the house was sold, and I noticed with joy one day that painters were about.

Yes. Well. The house is now divided into alternating clapboard rows: five a kind of bottom of the pool blue, five a new shade of orangey pink, back to blue, etc.,
etc. The whole being trimmed with a color that looks like the kind of coffee-with-milk one gets in bad diners.

Even the flamingoes are dismayed.

 

I think we need to see a picture of that!

 

You do know that the Victorians were not known for their sedate color schemes?

https://www.google.com/search?q=wha...orian painted ladies houses&tbm=isch&imgdii=_

 

Yep, and I love it!!!!

 

I do know that, but at the actual time, many of them were painted in varied, but utterly lugubrious, shades. Only in the last 60+ years or so, have they been sold to people who lightened the mood by painting them in more joyful colors. Some of them now look as if the Dutch Boy had been on pot when he got to them, but many are elegantly tinted, and trimmed with white ruffles (so to speak).

New Haven has some utterly enormous Victorians, which the owners have redone, and then there are some which have had their original colors resurrected. There is one which is a composition in dark brown, dark green and that ochre color that one only sees on painters palettes. The place is porched and gabled and bowed and turretted and fat.

 

Our B&M shop is a old Victorian with attached barn. We painted the body of the house and front of the barn, pink, window trim white, corner boards green, roof over hang and corbels darker green, under porch ceiling robins egg blue. We left the back of the house and back of the barn natural but with green trim. We get remembered.

 

Good eye on the holes for (maybe) a dresser. When you live in a house that's been in the same family since 1870, you end up with a real hodge-podge of stuff. Then I moved in with all MY stuff. Whoopie!

One of my best friends in high school showed me her great-aunt's house in Concord NH. It was painted plaid by the original Victorian era owners. She kept it up, but sometime in the 70s it was sold and they painted it boring white.

 

Exactly!