Mr. Bell’s “Ravvy & Caddy” is one of the popular pieces in the gallery and represents two cats of high degree reaching for some tempting dish upon a pantry shelf. A duplicate of this picture was purchased at the Chicago Salon by Mr. F. Dundas Todd. (1.)

Mr. Curtis Bell sold his “Ravvy and Caddie” three times at the Chicago Salon, solely, I presume, because the price was only $15 per copy. And it seems to me more logical to sell a print three times at a reasonable figure than not at all at a presumptuous price. The privilege of considering it worth a large sum of money can, after all, be not such an edifying one, as long as one finds nobody to share one’s opinion.

The only way to approximate a market value of pictoral prints is to investigate how much they might bring on the average, if offered for sale as illustrations. There is lately a decided demand for photographic illustrations, and consequently a certain standard price in vogue. (2.) 

1. Excerpt: The First Minneapolis Photographic Salon, Western Camera Notes: A Monthly Magazine of Pictorial Photography, March, 1903, p. 65
2. Excerpt: Sidney Allen, What is the Commercial Value of Pictorial Prints? The Photographic Times-Bulletin, December, 1904, p. 539