The collection

Have you ever dreamed of finding a treasure? As a child, I often went into my grandfather's studio and looked at all the books and prints lying flat in drawers. There were pictures of snakes, ships, pirates and sharks. An amazing treasure for a child. A large part of his collections have been sold on over the years. But even today we are sitting with parts of his collection that we have not yet had time to go through. And it really is a treasure. Here you can find both reproductions and some originals. The reproductions are of very high quality and have been sold both to museums and in bookstores over the years. Among other things, the Army Museum in Stockholm.

The archive has been packed away over the years and sometimes handled stepmotherly. It has happened that the prints have been used as wrapping paper and coloring books for bored children.
Unfortunately, some have also been destroyed by being stored incorrectly. Paper has a tendency to be quite sensitive to the ravages of time and how it has been handled.

So it is with great reverence that we now go through parts of Robert's collections.

As we go through and curate what is collected in his archive, we will put some up for sale. The prints are available in a limited edition. And will not be printed again.

Going through such a large collection takes time. In fact, even now I don't know for sure what is in the stacks of papers, or in the drawers that have not yet been opened. But when I found Robert's registry and framing price list, I felt I still had enough to go on to start putting prints up for sale.

Several of the prints I found are cataloged in the price list. With author, year of printing, printing technique, paper quality and quantity. But it turns out that not all prints are on the list. And I don't always find the number that is written down.

So that's why we post, as we go, what we find and judge to be of the required quality. Sometimes we find proofs. Sometimes we find prints that have been damaged over the years. But it also happens that we find an original, or a special edition.

When we find a print, we find out if it is recorded in Robert's records. As long as it's there, the process is pretty simple. It is photographed, the correct information is entered and we do a stock inventory. Then it is put up for sale.

But sometimes we don't know what it is we've found. And that's when the detective work begins. We are looking for sources, preferably museum databases or among Robert's collection of books on the subject. We try to always provide as much information as possible about the images when we can.

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