Russian Art Marquetry and Label Translation

I am glad you were able to know more about this interesting piece of art. Now for what concerns what to do it depends, f you like it, keep it.

Looks like an interesting art piece to me but it depends on how much you like it. How much do you think you can get for it?

I hope it is now worth quite a bit.

See if there is a market for it--that being said, I am not sure how to do that. Do they have auction appraisals near you?

If you love the painting than keep it if not sell it. I would keep it.

Keep it if you love it, sell it if you like it. Keep only whatever makes your heart sing!

I hope that you'll forgive me for saying that I don't think that your photo does the picture justice! Try to take the picture outside into daylight sometime - hazy sunshine is better than full sun - and arrange it so that the light is coming from about 45 degrees to the left or right. As far as possible, point the camera at 90 degrees to the centre of the picture, so that the edges of the picture are parallel to the edges of the camera frame. Move back or forward so that all of the picture is in shot. It is best not to use the zoom too much and, if you have a camera which has a wide zoom range from wideangle to telephoto, the best setting to use is to zoom in about a quarter of the zoom range rather than taking the picture at the widest angle of zoom. This means that you will have to stand back a little further to get the whole picture in, of course, but it will avoid the abberation which many zoom lenses have at the wideangle setting. Although $73 is the approximate equivalent of what was paid at the time, based on the exchange rates in force in 1990, I'm afraid that you probably couldn't expect to get anything like that today, even in Russia. Marquetry has never been very popular, so you'd have to find just the right buyer who liked and collected such things. I would have said that somewhere between $10 and $30 is about all you could expect to get for it, even to the right buyer.

I personally would sell it because it has no connection with my family.

if the value is worth selling, and it is unlikely to appreciate, I would sell it.

I would hang on to it for a while. You can always sell it at some point.

It is good that you have found out so much about this. I don't know what I'd do with it really.

Awesome! It is not my particular taste - so I would sell , unless it has an emotional meaning. That's just me though

You can sell it - at the right time.

If you find it relevant or has a connection or describe you you can keep it but if not then sell it.

I think it is beautiful and I would keep it.

The Eastern Europeans are very talented with their hands

That is so interesting. Its been years since I've seen any veneer art. I see them in museums once in a while, I don't know of anyone (except you) who owns one,

I'm glad you got it translated.