Thursday, February 25, 2010

Hand painted wall plaques-ROMANIA-?

I have 4 wall plaques consequetively numbered on the back as follows: C.A.P. Vladimirescu. jud. ARAD Art -f- /simbol -309 /N.I.D. Pret. lei IKO/ C.T.C. -ROMANIA-


Would anyone know about these, I bought them at a garage sale, and was told they were brought to the USA by great grandparents.Hand painted wall plaques-ROMANIA-?
Yes, Vladimirescu is a suburb of the city of Arad. But the name of this suburb comes from the name of the famous painter called Vladimirescu ... so i think that the notes reffers to the painter not the suburb.


If those paintings are the original ones, painted by Vladimirescu himself, they are worth a fortune.Hand painted wall plaques-ROMANIA-?
';C.A.P.'; most likely means collective farm, which were created by the communists in villages throughout Romania in the late 1940's and dismantled in 1990.


';Vladimirescu'; is today a suburb of Arad city in the west of Romania, but used to be a village, hence it had a CAP.


';jud. Arad'; means Arad county, obviously the county in which Arad city is located.


';pret lei'; means price (and with the ';IKO'; i think it means price per kilogramme)


';CTC'; means quality control.


...so those plaques were either owned at some point (between 1950-1990) or actually made at the collective farm in Vladimirescu, Arad county, Romania.





The name ';Vladimirescu'; was given to that locality in 1945 in honor of Tudor Vladimirescu , a 19th century Romanian revolutionary (and not at all an artist ); before it was known as Glogovat or Glogowatz.





As for the value of the plaques, it seems that there any many medieval remains around that village so maybe that's where the CAP got them from and sold the plaques further after stamping them.
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