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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 272433, member: 25"]The photos have almost no contrast, but what I can see looks typical of naive ship's portraits of the period, and as such there is collector interest for these. Signatures are almost always of no importance, for an art expert the signature if any is likely to be the last thing they look at and the least important.</p><p><br /></p><p>The picture would do best in a specialised nautical sale. You may be able to find similar sold items from such sales.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 272433, member: 25"]The photos have almost no contrast, but what I can see looks typical of naive ship's portraits of the period, and as such there is collector interest for these. Signatures are almost always of no importance, for an art expert the signature if any is likely to be the last thing they look at and the least important. The picture would do best in a specialised nautical sale. You may be able to find similar sold items from such sales.[/QUOTE]
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