For Immediate Release: Dateline: Santa Barbara , CA This blog post has been syndicated at ExpertClick.com . What does it mean that this article is “ syndicated”? See end of article for explanation. BTW, that is not a cigarette in my hand, lol. I don’t smoke. Its for measuring the pH of paper. What is your collectible worth? OK, time for a teaching moment regarding several lessons. On this project and with this client, I consulted with her (a valuable service) on what her purposes or objectives were with the artwork (she wants to sell it)… but there was a ripple in the paper. Her opinion is that it should bring about $50,000 at auction but she can’t see getting the best price with the warp in the paper. I told her that I would have to take it out of its plexiglass frame in order to determine what the problem is. That seemed OK as she was also open to putting a new frame on it since this old plexiglass box frame was coming apart at the seams. I picked up the artwork at her house (
