Botanical palm illustrations

[TikiRick]

While in Asheville, NC this week, I came across this set of 8 x 10 framed botanical palm illustrations in an antique mall. The backs of the frames are sealed, so not sure if these are antique, made in China, or prints of an old illustration.  They are in relatively good shape.

Does anyone have any suggestions or information? Regardless, for $30.00 for the set, I thought they were worth it. Made my day!!

"SAGON TREE"

"COCOAKER TREE"

"HUNTFMAN TREE"

[Jeff Searle]

Rick,

   Those are very nice, and I agree, they still are worth the price you paid, even if their only a knock-off. BTW, did you know my birthday is coming up?

Jeff

[Kamipalms]

Nice set of prints there rick and for $30 I think their a bargain.

I've bought a couple before but find a lot of prints for sale online are ripoffs  especially the ones on eBay. I mean there are people flogging CD's with 'original' prints.

However, there are genuine sellers online who have the real thing for sale if your prepared to hand over some large sums of cash.

I bought this set a couple of years ago;

1855 Lithographs from Curtis Botanical Magazine . Included was the original descriptions.

Their 2 separate prints scanned, Photoshoped and quality reduced for web use.

 I paid an absolute fortune for them.

[SubTropicRay]

Rick,

Nice find.  For $30, you stole them.

Ray

[PalmGuyWC]

Nice steal, Rick.  The frames look old and kind of crude, maybe trying to duplicate bamboo? Maybe of asian origan? They are probably the real thing.

Now that you have learned to post pictures, how about some of the real thing when you get back to Ft. Lauderdale?

Dick

[junglegalfla]

the border w/ the writing and the frames lend me to believe they are not old but manufactured purposely like that. Still a bargain for what you paid!

JG

[Gileno Machado]

Rick:

That was a great price you paid for them, these illustrations are beautiful and decorative. I can't identify the palms though, and these palm species actually look like they've only existed in the artist's wild imagination...Cocoaker tree, hummm?? Was this a cross between a nucifera and a Chamaedorea of some kind? Very suspicious indeed, not to mention this most unusual Huntfman tree with a weird root system developping from the mid trunk...

Here are two marvelous illustrations from Martius original book which I'd love to reproduce and frame sometime...

[Gileno Machado]

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