Featured Colorful Bird prints help with signature What cute little birds

The framed picture are 5 1/2" X 7 1/2"

 

Gila will like them.

 

I do, I do!

Unfortunately I don't recognize the artist. Looks like it starts with an "l" and has either two "I" dots, unless it's an umlaut.

Since the frames are modest, I would be surprised if the prints are extremely valuable. But they're very sweet... I'd hang them in a breakfast nook in a heartbeat.

Stray thoughts...
The one with three birds looks to me like a House Sparrow and two juveniles. The other bird puzzles me, but then I don't know my wild birds as well as kept and caged birds. Sometimes artists fabricate birds, but the fact that the House Sparrows are realistic makes me hope somebody can identify it. My best guess would be female jay.

 

Are you sure they are prints and not original art?

Bee catchers?

 

MOS... good question, about being a drawing... let's have a look at those edges and the reverse, please!

Bee-eaters? The orange cap would be right, and the blue, but the beak and tail are too thick and straight, I believe. This may be one of those "artistic license" Frankensteins...

 

Thanks I will get some pics of the reverse and the edges

 

Wow! Now THAT'S a delayed answer!

 

Better late than...

 

Hola Here are the bird arriving late again
I think these are the edges you requested GaleriaGila If you need more just let me know Thanks

 

This thread reminds me of that cartoon of a skeleton covered in cobwebs in the driving position sitting in a car at a stop sign......

 

all I can say on that one is you got me lol-ing

 

back down memory lane, looked at the art again with a loupe. They an original colored ink drawing art works. Can anyone read French?

 

Reading French isn't the problem, reading the handwriting is. One word might be 'verte', green.

Can say the price was 2 sous. Before converting to the euro, the French monetary unit was the franc, which was divided into 100 centimes. A sou was 5 centimes. I don't know when this was priced. It's a good long while since I was in France, but at that time the value of the franc was about 20 cents.

I too thought the dots over the signature were likely to be an umlaut until I noticed they wander & are not in the same places on both examples. I wonder that they wander & suspect they are actually flying periods (full stops) that belong after 2 initials in front of a very short surname.

 

Thanks Bronwen

 

I think those notes have to do with framing. If it says verte oro, that describes the frame you are showing - green and gold. Apparently, 5 centime (sou) coins were discontinued in the 1920s. After that, the lowest denomination was 50 centimes (10 sou). I don't know when 2 sou would have been a usable amount of money, but I doubt it was after 1900.

 

Thanks moreotherstuff

 

It doesn't necessarily say 2 sou, and, really, it looks like verde instead of verte, making it Spanish?

 

And that does look to me like "oro" rather than "or", which would support Spanish.

I confess that that one pic does look like 2 sou. My problem with that is that I don't know how far back you would have to go for 2 sou to be any meaningful amount of money.

These pictures don't look 19th C to me.

 

Look 1950s to my eye.

Debora

 

I meant to add this, but I forgot.


I got too caught up in the passion of the moment.