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Originally Posted by damaclese
thanks for sharing this piture with us it looks to be in good condstion to me
if you want to clean it you can take Q-tips dipped in distild water and lightly and slowly clean it in smal serculer mostions taks time but it will clean the dust off the surfice but if you rub to long and to hard it can lift the varnishes that most artist ues to seel there work but looking at it id say its not been seeled as it would have yellowed by now and it doint look yelloed to me at all as a mater of fact for 1942 it looks almost brand new id say the board its on it probly some sort of fiber board mostly mad of pine fiber which out of all the wood you could use is vary acid if that fram is pine you sould take ot off emideatly it will ruin the painting over time the best woods to ues for frams are tropical they are fairly nutral like teek or mahohany i ues only mahogan frames no pine or ash or charry paer percimon or any other fruit woods theas are all highly acidic in nature if you do desice to replace the fram make sure that just becaus it looks like mahogany that it is in fact thers alot of cheep pine frams dyed to look like mahogany thats how they keep the cost down
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Oooh ..... well, there was a white film across the picture from the glare so I clicked on 'auto fix' and it made the colors so much prettier!! It really looks somewhere in the middle of the original photo and the vibrant color one. But it IS in good condition, I hope for the age and all the unknowns about it. It is turning a sort of yukky color on the low sky line on each side of Mt Shasta and into the trees to the left. Ric made the frame and he thinks it's oak and then he rubbed a stain on it. If we need to take it off we surely will. I've learned so much in these few posts from you!! I will take a q-tip and some distilled water and rub just a little on a corner and then let it sit for a month or so and if nothing happens I'll do a little more.