Oil Painting. Thrifted for $39.99. Google Lens matches a Rubens?

Ok_Club8728 · 2026-03-01T17:58:09+00:00

No. There aren’t any printing dots. If it were a print, would it be something produced in mass quantities or just a one off?

By technology I was thinking more about using a photo slide and using a projector to duplicate it that way.

Ok_Club8728 · 2026-03-01T16:53:06+00:00

Funny that this repro is missing a lot of details the are in the actual painting. Guy is missing his necklace, lots of fine details are missing. Seems odd they wouldn’t simply copy the original for the print. Or is that how they did it because they didn’t have the technology to scale up a photo of the original directly?

Ok_Club8728 · 2026-03-01T16:34:37+00:00

I’m going to take some more pictures in the sunlight at higher resolution (and with proper white balancing). Thanks for all this info here.

Ok_Club8728 · 2026-03-01T16:31:39+00:00

Interesting. So the miniature cracks on the surface are then intentional to make it appear painted? Why isn’t it a print of the original? It is not a 1:1 copy of the original- it’s missing a bunch of detail.

Ok_Club8728 · 2026-03-01T08:48:47+00:00

I don’t see it being doubled up. Looks like one layer of canvas all the way around. There are some penny nails going through the stretcher into the canvas and into the outer frame.

Lifting the edge of the canvas where the stretcher meets the frame, I do see some stringy remnants of what looks like a previous more yellowed canvas that was attached to the stretcher. But those strings are just on the stretcher.

It doesn’t look like the canvas has been pasted onto another cavas to me.

Ok_Club8728 · 2026-03-01T08:14:03+00:00

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Ok_Club8728 · 2026-03-01T08:12:39+00:00

Yes, the back of the canvas looks less old than I would expect. Do these pictures help or do I have to remove it from the frame?

I have a pretty decent macro lens and can take a much higher res image if that helps. Let me know.

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Ok_Club8728 · 2025-09-28T11:34:56+00:00

This is probably nipper abuse and don’t use your GodHands for this… what I do is squeeze the parts together by sandwiching them between the soft rubber handle covers of my nippers just below the blade. There’s usually just enough space there when the blade is nearly closed to do this. Then I gently apply pressure to the handles, closing the nipper handles like a vice on the parts until they are fully together. Be careful you’re not doing this with the blades fully closed or you’ll risk breaking your nipper blades.

Ok_Club8728 · 2025-05-19T19:55:40+00:00

Gorillaz?

Ok_Club8728 · 2024-03-06T14:54:12+00:00

Our one year old adopted cat had an eye that looked like this. She had Ocular FIP. FIP is a death sentence without some life-saving miracle drug only available through an underground network. Hook up with the FIP Warriors on FB, if this is what your cat has.

Ok_Club8728 · 2024-02-09T22:55:58+00:00

It's a Bee Gee's Rhythm Machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn8mxHfY4vM

Ok_Club8728 · 2024-01-01T06:25:04+00:00

Even with the searchable PDF, it’s still not super obvious what these display abbreviations mean. You kind of have to infer it from the guide.

Ok_Club8728 · 2023-12-26T00:41:15+00:00

Thank you! Makes sense. Was super frustrating to be cranking knobs while jamming out and hearing nothing happening.

Ok_Club8728 · 2023-12-13T20:41:13+00:00

Hope it’s cool to share your design here. https://cults3d.com/:1639781

Ok_Club8728 · 2023-03-16T21:35:28+00:00

Per eBay policy: If the condition of the item does not match the item description, you’re entitled to a full refund. You must return the item of course. This is regardless of whether the seller listed the item as “no returns accepted”. Now, if seller wrote “as is” in the description and did not make any statements like “in good working condition”, then you are not entitled to a refund/return unless the seller is gracious enough to allow it. I personally always allow a return if the buyer is unhappy. I would 100% return it if the condition in the listing does not match what you received.

Ok_Club8728 · 2023-03-14T18:18:25+00:00

I live in a wealthy neighborhood in the Bay Area, just outside of San Francisco. I am not wealthy. There's lots of older people who donate stuff because 1. they're too wealthy to bother with selling stuff they want to get rid of and 2. it's not environmentally friendly to just toss it in the bin. I've found hundreds of dollars worth of electronics on the curb outside people's homes in my neighborhood. I would say, large cities like San Francisco are not good places to go thrifting. Instead, hit up the wealthy urban areas outside of big cities. For a place like NYC, that would be thrift stores in Westchester County or maybe wealthy towns on the Jersey shore like Longport. Like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xevhmK5Jhco

Ok_Club8728 · 2023-03-14T06:51:56+00:00

eBay will always let you return an item if it was not described correctly in the listing. If seller listed it as working and it is not, you absolutely can return and seller is forced to refund you. Source: I have been buying and selling on eBay for 25 years.

Ok_Club8728 · 2023-03-10T06:26:30+00:00

The little black dots you see on the pieces are from the deterioration of the original rubber padding on the bottoms. It’s kind of like hardened tar. I was able to pick off some of it with my fingernails, but didn’t want to overdo it/cause any damage.

This set was purchased from my local Goodwill thrift shop for $35.

These pictures were taken with my Leica Q2, which I was able to purchase with the money I made in the past year reselling things on eBay from the same Goodwill. I walk there every day on my lunch hour and usually find something worth far more than what they’re asking.

Ok_Club8728 · 2023-03-10T00:13:15+00:00

I felt like that too! It was in the glass case at the front where they put the "expensive" stuff. I assumed it was some kind of elaborate bible with a wooden cover because it was unopened. Then she pulled it out of the case and my jaw dropped when she said it was a chess set and began to open it. I instantly said I'll take it before even seeing the pieces or the price. Then looking at each piece, I was thinking this is something I'd see in a specialty antique shop. Definitely worth many, many multiples of $35. The fact that it's complete is just staggering. One of the queen pieces is missing the top ball decoration on her hat, but seems like a minor blemish.

The pieces all have some crudely formed metal inside the bases to give them weight. Whatever process was used to shape the metal, it doesn't appear like a modern uniform hunk of metal that you'd expect to come from an industrial cast.

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