Word: regild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spring when a frail, 82-year-old lady named Eva Savage consigned a batch of 35 presumably undistinguished paintings to Christie's to be auctioned. Her husband, who died 15 years ago, had been a picture framer whose practice was to buy old frames which he would then regild and use. Often the pictures in the frames went with the deal. On one such occasion in 1933, Mrs. Savage recalls, her husband bought a wagonload of frames at an average price of 10 shillings each from a dealer in York, who for good measure happened to throw...
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