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  • @Holly:

    Wow! Thank you for the info. How do you know all this? It's wonderful! And I thank the rest of you for your advise as well, for they are poorly framed, against glass, and damaged. But I will take them to a frame shop and get them as well cared for as possible. The only thing the lady at the church knew was that they were in an estate and there is an old sticker on the back of each one from a frame shop in Hawaii. The faded out signature could be John Fulton!! but there is an additional name after those two.

    Good, they deserve care.

    A print is a copy of the original. The original will (usually) be signed. Sometimes the print is also signed by the artist, or it might be signed and numbered. So, let say they have a run of 300 prints. There will be a sig from the artist from the original, then he will do a sig on the print and put 1/300 on the first one; 2/300 on the second and so on. not that i think these prints had a 300 run.

  • super cool find!

  • WOW How lucky to come across something like that! And thank you for sharing your find!

  • Nice! Why don't I find things like that. :p
    Take good care of them and enjoy them!

  • Wow. What an awesome find!!!!

  • WOW! They are fantastic.

    REALLY big important advice. DO NOT CLEAN til you let professional evaluate. Sometimes just cleaning them up can make them nearly worthless. Get professional advice on them. Wow. Congrats on such a wonderful find!

  • Thank you all for your very helpful advice and for your happiness for me. I will let you know what I find.:o

  • Agree with all of above! Be sure your frame shop knows how to 'restore', or care for valuable vintage prints. Restoration can be relatively expensive, but adds to the value of your
    prints in the long run. You are indeed lucky to have found these prints, treasure them! It may be a sign that you will be 'basenji people' forever!

  • @MacPack:

    Be sure your frame shop knows how to 'restore', or care for valuable vintage prints.

    I could be wrong, but I doubt that a "frame shop" will know anything about restoration of pictures; however, they may be able to give you a lead to a restorer. Or, if they can't, check with museums that deal mainly in art work or even places that sell art work (as opposed to places that just frame art work) and ask them to refer you to a restorer.

  • WOW, those are amazing..what a find!! I hope the restoration goes well…enjoy them!!!

  • So cool! Lucky you!!!!!

  • I agree with LindaH. I work in a museum (natural history not art) and you need to contact someone who restores paintings not just a framer. You have a wonderful find and something that can be passed down for generations to come. But they need to be properly cared for. I don't know anyone in Florida but you could contact the Midwest Art Conservation Center for help: info@preserveart.org or their website: http://www.preserveart.org/

  • Wow those pics are absolutely beautiful!!! If you are looking at possibly selling them I would definately be interested in one of them. Congrats on your find!

  • All of you have been so wonderfully helpful. I can't thank you enough. I would not have done the right thing. Now I will. And, again, I will post when I have found out more. @wizard:

    I agree with LindaH. I work in a museum (natural history not art) and you need to contact someone who restores paintings not just a framer. You have a wonderful find and something that can be passed down for generations to come. But they need to be properly cared for. I don't know anyone in Florida but you could contact the Midwest Art Conservation Center for help: info@preserveart.org or their website: http://www.preserveart.org/

  • Thank you for appreciating the prints. My son is eager to have them hang in his room, so we will most likely keep them.:) Thanks, though.@krunzer:

    Wow those pics are absolutely beautiful!!! If you are looking at possibly selling them I would definately be interested in one of them. Congrats on your find!

  • Most of the prints I have seen included some color on some small part of some of the subjects. The color appeared hand done as the ones I have and others I have seen do not have the same colors, but usually the same areas were colored. If they are signed they could be very valuable. Not something to be treated lightly.

  • I should have included this in my first post.

    Do they have a bamboo type frame around them?

  • the prints are lovely and realy interesting. Good luck having them restored and enjoy them

  • Wow, I was just reading everyone's input and knowledgeable input at that! Those prints are so neat a find! I find that the depiction of the Basenji is so close to what we can see in our domesticated breed of today. My husband (who I don't give enough credit to sometimes….)even saw how the legs on the B on the guy's shoulder were extended straight out- Love the detail, and as B owners, we all can appreciate the detail I am sure!

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