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<p>[QUOTE="verybrad, post: 9433161, member: 37"]Nice mirror. Not finding anything quite like it despite having just browsed through a few hundred mirrors. Agree that the mirror is a replacement but do not think the original was necessarily beveled. If old enough, the mirrors were plain edged thick plate glass. Beveled glass mirrors were a later 19th century addition. Values seem to be all over the place for anything even remotely similar. I do think we are at least in the high hundreds to just over $1000.00, in this condition. Restored, it could be worth double that, or more. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the closest comparable I could find. I think the question mirror is, potentially, better once restored. It sold for £650, at auction. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/75054121_a-19th-century-italian-gilt-framed-mirror" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/75054121_a-19th-century-italian-gilt-framed-mirror" rel="nofollow">A 19th Century Italian Gilt Framed Mirror, - Sep 12, 2019 | Cheffins In United Kingdom (liveauctioneers.com)</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="verybrad, post: 9433161, member: 37"]Nice mirror. Not finding anything quite like it despite having just browsed through a few hundred mirrors. Agree that the mirror is a replacement but do not think the original was necessarily beveled. If old enough, the mirrors were plain edged thick plate glass. Beveled glass mirrors were a later 19th century addition. Values seem to be all over the place for anything even remotely similar. I do think we are at least in the high hundreds to just over $1000.00, in this condition. Restored, it could be worth double that, or more. Here is the closest comparable I could find. I think the question mirror is, potentially, better once restored. It sold for £650, at auction. [URL='https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/75054121_a-19th-century-italian-gilt-framed-mirror']A 19th Century Italian Gilt Framed Mirror, - Sep 12, 2019 | Cheffins In United Kingdom (liveauctioneers.com)[/URL][/QUOTE]
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