I was surprised to learn that three color printing was an 18th C invention: [ATTACH] (a la poupée is selectively inking areas in a single plate...
Offset printing process: [MEDIA] I think a controlling factor in quality is how the plates are produced.
I'll repost anyhow: Watching a movie called "Hail Caesar" I was taken aback by this scene: [ATTACH] It's that thing over the fireplace. I sold...
Very stylish.
@TT Antique : do you have a picture that shows the matrix?
Maybe just "prunus", which tends to be a catchall for non-specific blossoms.
https://www.antiquers.com/threads/a-movie-coincidence.77628/#post-9427295
I have this factory painting: [ATTACH] I knew it was a factory painting before buying it. The guy I bought it from told me it was a factory...
Are you sure there aren't marks here? [ATTACH] Very indistinct.
Someone has been very unkind to that blade.
I haven't seen a gage like that before.
"Barbotine" might be something to look up.
Can't disagree. Plus it's not signed. Maybe the entry in that list is incorrect. Someone registered a design on that date. I can't see it...
The client didn't want to pay because he said the barber was taking off the top of his head, so the barber is showing him the difference. There's...
I have this magazine cover from the same period: [ATTACH] It was the barber's expression that got me: [ATTACH]
If I'm reading the diamond correctly, the date is July 8, 1878. The only design registered on that date (that I can find) is Wedgwood Etruria...
Illustration by Gus Bofa, 1883-1968 (siggy lower right corner).
Had some, but gave them away. Big, double sided, Harry Potter posters. My nephew has them now. Or not, as the case may be. I was doing the...
It's nicely done, an attractive piece.
Who here is watching it?
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