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saake oil painting

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Re: saake oil painting

Posted: 11 Mar 2015 2:38PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Saake, Armstrong, Selby
Hi,
I have a framed item with a sticker from your late grandfather's framing business on the back and am hoping that based on the address there, you can help me with an approximate date for when it was framed (and possibly sold) by them. The address is: 476 14th Street, Oakland. I found a city directory reference and an art directory for the store at that address in 1914, 1916 and 1917 with the reference E. J. Saake, maybe your great-grandfather? I also found a listing in the 1907 San Francisco-Oakland directory for E. J. Saake, pictures, frames, etc 13 Teleg. Av, Oakland 4278. I have seen other addresses for the company in later years and so am mainly interested in knowing the year that the company was at 476 14th Street. For anyone who is curious, the item is a very dark drawing of a landscape with a rustic log/stone cabin type house, details in blue and in white oil pencil on black or darkbrown paper, signed H. Armstrong Selby (for whom I can find no information, so if anyone has any idea of who that was, I would also appreciate that!)
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