"Cupid Awake" and "Cupid Asleep"

That's correct, decent frames are often worth more than the print ;~)Antiques are a very interesting business, value is often a matter of perception, folklore and greed....

We see a lot of this, people have a print that's hung in great Grandma's house since 1898 and think it's very valuable, but in reality it's often an illustration great Grandma cut out of an old calendar she liked, or a mass produced print like "Cupid" she bought at the local Five & Dime.

We also know of a Dealer who was using a high end printer and 20lb paper at one of those " Quicky Copy" type places, running off copies of sought after 19th Century lithographs such as Currier & Ives. He hung them in consignment Flea Markets in old frames with no claim or identification of the print, only that the frames were antique with price tags for a quarter the value of an original high end print.

What is interesting is they were purchased by people who had a good idea of what an original print by "Currier & Ives" was worth, and thought they were looking at the real item, but none of them informed the dealer " did you know that's a rare Currier & Ives worth about about $1600.00? " They just snickered to themselves at the dealers ignorance, bought the phony and ran for the door ;~)

He's been caught a few times, but nothing ever came of it because he was very careful to never make any claim regarding the print's originality or age, only that the frame was antique. The buyers were caught out by their own greed.

Lovejoy