Appraisal: German Relief-carved Plaques, ca. 1890
Oh in 1921 my great-grandmother came from post NIC Germany and she brought these items along with a few other items from home that her grandfather had carved out of wood first of all let's talk about what they are these are relief carved panels and I think they date from around 1870 1880 your grandfather or your great-grandfather it would been my great great rent great great I'll say there's a lot of great to this he he was very highly skilled just the way he did the mountains and everything the fact that he was from Germany sort of puzzled me a little bit but on this bigger one because that's a Norwegian flag but sometimes they did things like this from prints ok images will print inspired they weren't necessarily something that they just sort of took out of nature but your great-great-grandfather was was way better than average because of the way did the mountains the way did the people's faces and everything is so animated and I especially loved the one up front here that has the trees the other thing I like about this stuff is that it has the original finish the frame is is integral to the whole thing it's the frame that's not added right the whole thing is one solid piece of wood well personally I'd hang them in my house in a heartbeat yes so in a good retail setting I would say on this large one we'd be at about a thousand to a $1,500 and each one of these would be about four to six hundred dollars a year give or take yes they mean a lot to me and been in my family a long time and they'll keep hanging on my wall till I go
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