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Sat, Mar 19, 2016 09:00AM EDT - Mon, Mar 21, 2016 09:00AM EDT
Lot 730

American or British School

Estimate: $800 - $1,500

Bid Increments

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$100,000 $10,000
(19th century) Portrait of a Woman Holding a Letter, signed presumed unsigned but with semi-legible name on letter "J.C. Sheider"?, oil on canvas, 36 x 28 in.; gilt wood and compostion frame,

Condition

patched verso, old stretcher with added tension bars at corner, tears, two with patches verso, crackle, small points of retouch, flaking cupping, cleavage; frame with restoration