>On Sunday, November 3, 2002, at 07:55 AM, joel metz, ifbma/sfbma wrote:
>>should cost about $100-150 to frame properly, yes... depending on
>> how fancy you get with the actual frame... thats what its cost me to frame
>> things of roughly that same size...
>
>To preserve this in archival condition will cost quite a bit more
>than $150 even with a simple frame. The real problem is the drawing
>itself which is most likely on a cheap wood pulp drawing paper which
>eats itself no matter what you mount it on.
hmm. well, the two things ive had framed most recently cost:
$250 (1883 wheelmen promotional poster, museum-quality archival mounting, acid-free everything, basic black wood frame, about 2" x3")
$225 (1932 u. dei team poster, same mounting as above, though i opted to not go for the full restoration at this time, which wouldve cost me an addition $500, abo 2" x 2.5")
assuming highly acid paper, you can wash it, or simply mount on a
very base board, which will start to leach some of the acid away from
the paper. you *can* halt the acid eating away the paper.
>I'm not convinced it's actually a drawing and not an etching. If is
>really is a drawing and it was actually in good shape on not ripped
>out from the original piece of paper, I'd place a high bid in the
>$300-$350 range, as it is over $100 is too high in my opinion. If
>it came with the magazine the print was used in add another $50 to
>$100.
ive commonly seen drawings like this - cut out from the original sheet they were on (to remove preliminary sketches and whatnot around the main drawing) and mounted on heavier stock for reproduction... if you look closely at the image (ie save it off, and crank up the photoshop) you can see its actually 2 separate drawings - theres a cut just in front of the pilots seat tube, around the front of the pilots cranks and seat as well....
but im also not the end-all-be-all expert by any means...
-joel
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