Bought this Narragansett print on Masonite board just in the last days of December 2017 on eBay for $100. Not too bad with some obvious issues. The problems come in when I spent another $222 to have it framed. DOH!!!.....
I don't expect to ever sell it so I'm not worried I'm not going to get my investment back out of it. I had it framed exactly like another Narragansett print that I picked up in 2016. They should look great together on the wall!!! First picture is it sitting on my black pool table cover. The rest are after framing......
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Scott Gray BCCA# 33638 / RB# 958 / Qwarts-R-Us #8 / Iron Guts #6
Framing can get out of hand. About five years ago I bought a good sized (2' x 3.5') painting on a cruise stop in Haiti. Was like $50. Guy rolled up the canvas and put it in a tube for the trip home. Of course, my wife wanted just the right frame with just the right look. Framing was like $380. More than 7x the cost of the painting!!
Bob
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Professional framing is a racket. There's only so many doing it and doing it well. We bought a couple of Terry Redlin lithographs over the years and the framing was always a shock. They recommended museum quality mounting with acid free paper, no glare glass, etc, etc. Then you had to decide on the mat borders, width and colors. The end results were always outstanding. To this day, we have no regrets doing it, but at the time, we really questioned spending as much as we did.
Your framer did a very nice job. Also nice that the frames match. Now you need another vertical sign to hang on the right of the Seasons Greetings one.
