Antique Religious Prints

Father Time® Auctions St Louis MO to Auction Religious Art and Antiques of Convent

St. Louis, MO, May 07, 2011 --( PR.com )-- The Franciscan Sisters of Mary will hold two (2) Public Auctions, Saturday, May 14, 2011, and Saturday, May 21, 2011, to sell unneeded convent furnishings of the congregation. The auctions, conducted by Father Time® Auctions, will take place in the convent, 1100 Bellevue Avenue in Richmond Heights, MO, 63117. Statuary & Crosses: A variety of antique to contemporary statuary pieces from 60” high to table top statues. A variety of antique and newer crosses & crucifixes from 48” high to small, made of wood, plaster, painted gesso, ceramic, brass & steel. Saints represented in art all pieces; Jesus, Sacred heart of Jesus, Mary, Madonna & child, Joseph, infant of Prague, Our Lady of Victory; St. Francis, St. Clair, St. Anthony, St. George, etc. Furniture: Antique American walnut partners desk & laminated top; vintage heavily carved Chinese wood bench with ebonized finish & matching side table; vintage oak roll top desks; gilded wood table with brass ormolu accents and light onyx top; antique ¼ sawn oak side board; antique cherry book case with glass doors; antique ¼ sawn oak china cabinet with bent glass sides by A.J. Johnson; antique side board with Queen Ann feet; antique walnut side board with white marble top; antique china cabinet with beveled mirrors; antique secretary with book case and leaded glass panel inserts; antique walnut parlor set with settee and side chairs; high back antique oak Gothic style chairs; American Empire chairs; antique tilt top pedestal table; antique square ¼ sawn oak table; library tables in walnut & ¼ sawn oak; semi-vintage record cabinet; antique platform rocker; antique walnut barrel top desk; Mission style desks & library tables; Cherry library table; assorted tables & chairs.

Antique Prints Blog: Value of religious prints

One of the results of this is that religious prints tend to have low values. Almost always, a religious print will have a lower value than a comparable print (say from the same date and by the same publisher) with another subject. The ubiquitous nature of religious prints means that they are relatively common and this keeps their value down. The same thing applies to Bibles, where the very large number in existence means that most Bibles sell for relatively low prices. It is hard for a seller to price a religious print very high when a buyer can probably find a dozen comparable ones that will be priced lower. There are a couple of other reasons that religious prints tend not to sell for high prices. First is that much of the demand for religious prints has been a “mass market” demand for utilitarian images, not an elite demand for elaborately-done prints. That is, most people want a religious print in order to have a particular image to hang in their home or work place, not because they are looking for collectible and valuable print. Most of the religious prints that have been made were made in large numbers by relatively inexpensive processes: hand-colored lithographs in the mid-nineteenth century or chromolithographs later in the century or dot-matrix reproductive prints in the early twentieth century. This sort of print on any topic will tend not to have a high value, so this is another reason religious prints are generally low priced. The final factor that keeps the value of religious prints low is that this theme is not currently one that a lot of people use to decorative their home or office. As noted above, in earlier times religious prints would have been the most typical type of image one would see hanging in homes and elsewhere. Today, it is much more the exception than the rule that religious prints are used in such situations. Christopher W. Lane is co-owner of The Philadelphia Print Shop, Ltd., which he founded along with Donald H. Cresswell in 1982. Besides buying and selling, Chris researches, lectures and writes extensively on old prints and maps. He has written numerous articles that have appeared in journals and books, as well as a series of booklets on print and map collecting. Chris has also authored Prints of Philadelphia (1990 with D.H. Cresswell), Impressions of Niagara (1993) and Panorama of Pittsburgh (2008), and has curated several print exhibitions.

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