Discuss the below:
I have 14 framed hand-colored prints from the series "The Paths of Learning Strewed with Flowers OR English Grammar Illustrated 1826." The images are approx. 4 x2 3/4" in 5x6" wood frames.
I've had them since the 1950s, when they were hung on the wall. They've been boxed up for decades. Is there a market for such arcane children's art?
ALSO.... I have a dozen silver discs that are music awards issued by Playboy magazine to the winners of its Pop and Jazz Readers' Poll. There are medals from 1971, 72 and 73, plus 2 blank ones. They are in black presentation cases. Many are stamped with the word 'sterling' on the back, most are engraved with the winner's name and category -- e.g. Paul McCartney, Bass, 1972. The ones that aren't stamped 'sterling' are quite tarnished; the others are not (strange!). My husband worked at Playboy magazine and retrieved these items from the trash in the 1980s.
Q: Clearly the winners had not bothered to pick up their awards so...some 10 years later, they were tossed. The discs are quite heavy, but ....are they really silver? If so, there would be salvage value, if nothing else. But where to start in evaluating them?