For a print or photograph, the hand coloring is typically done in a watercolor-like paint or ink. For vases and porceline, the hand color may be done in a different kind of paint. If the colors are hand painted, the ink consistancy and darkness will be uneven, like with a watercolor painting. As the brush … Continue reading “How can you tell if something is hand colored instead of the colors being printed on?”

Fine art prints are often printed in editions. An edition will contain a finite and often known number of prints. There is the normal print run, then there are often additional editions, such as an Artist's Proof edition or Printer's Proof edition. The total print run is the sum of all of the editions. 70 … Continue reading Editions in Fine Art Prints

Whether it involves celebrity autographs, movie posters, fine art prints, baseball cards, postcards or antique figurines, collecting can be good clean fun for boys and girls of all ages. However, all areas of collecting have fakes, reprints and scams. The following is a brief but important list of tips that the beginner should read before … Continue reading Tips for newbie collectors of most anything

In all areas of collecting, from movie memorabilia to oil paintings, something is authentic if its true identity is described accurately and sincerely.If you pay good money for an “original 1930 Greta Garbo photograph by the famous Hollywood photographer George Hurrell,” you expect to receive an original 1930 Greta Garbo photo by George Hurrell. You … Continue reading What authenticity is

What you describe is consistant with a genuine proof. The thin on thick paper is called chine aplique, and some proofs are chine appliques.

No. The photographer's stamp most often means the photograph was made by or with the permission of the photographer. This alone makes the presence of a famous photographer's stamp desirable to photo collectors. However, photographers sometimes make reprints and 'years after' photographs, so the stamp does not automatically mean the photograph is a vintage original.If … Continue reading “If a photograph has the stamp with a famous photographer’s name does that mean it’s original?”

The term photographic print can be confusing, as the 'print' can imply an ink and printing press print like a lithograph or etching.A photographic print is a photograph made, or 'printed,' from a negative or transparency. A transparency works the same as a negative, but the image is positive instead of negative. The vast majority … Continue reading “What does ‘photographic print’ mean?”

Most posters are photomechanical prints, meaning the graphics are reproductions of some photo or other art. However, a number of posters are original prints. Pablo Picasso and Mark Chagall made original art advertising posters. Most pre American Civil War posters are original art, as the modern photomechanical processes weren't yet in use.