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Marco Polo

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Hello guys! I am looking for any information and potential value of this old painting. I would be grateful for any info or suggestions where to look. Thank you much! https://ibb.co/vs934Dg

Colin Berwick

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Suspect!
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Please either give us the full URL or better still paste the picture into the Forum. All I can tell you about the painting is that it's old, and it wasn't painted by a professional.  Its value is not likely to be high, try it (if you want to sell it) in an auction sale of genre paintings.  If it's a family painting, it may have considerable sentimental value, but that's unlikely to be translatable into hard cash.  

Alan Bickley

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I’ve opened the link and it’s not art related, no painting to appraise! Not sure what you’ve opened Robert.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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There's only one link - opened that, took me to Ibb, and to a dark Victorian painting, framed, and OK but undistinguished: I would paste it in here, but the file's too big.  I don't know where the link led you?  There were two posts, I think - maybe one link works, the other doesn't?  Will try again: hold on to your Ipads...
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Nope, link to the painting still works for me. What, I wonder, gives?  Presumably you copied the full link, not just ibb?  Otherwise - it's one of life's impenetrable mysteries..... which I find accumulate more the older I get.

Alan Bickley

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Yes it’s the same scenario, there’s a dark picture which I missed, plus loads of other adverts and news items!

Collette Hughes

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Here's a screen shot. It's not a good photo that's been taken, too much glare. Something about it looks modern, not just the out of frame hand, can't put my finger on it. No pun intended LOL 
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Good point, I had noticed the out of frame hand - I still think it's probably Victorian: is that a real inner frame, or a painted one?  I'd like to get my hands on it to give it a thorough examination, and that, frustratingly, is what we just can't do on a screen.  Either way, I still wouldn't put a high price on it - if you get it into an auction where a couple of people really want it, I suppose it might get up to £100: but I also think you'd be lucky if it did. Sometimes you see these paintings on screen, and think that looks OK, or conversely awful - but as I once dealt with what were sometimes enthusiastically described as objets d'art (the 'objet' part being accurate, the 'd'art' less so). I know that their condition can be a lot worse than you'll see onscreen - paintwork flaking off, canvas attacked by moth, frame ridden with woodworm.  All of this has an impact on the value - and 'old' is not a synonym for 'good/valuable': something which those who have rescued a painting from granny's attic don't always realize; also, they don't also grasp the fact that the picture might have been relegated to the attic for good reason. Not that this applies in this case, so far as we know.  But I would like to know why it's been photographed in what looks like the darkest corner of Dracula's library....