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<p>[QUOTE="Jeff Talbot, post: 2728307, member: 16510"]For everyone's information, on closer inspection it looks to be mostly hand painted, and most likely on an early plastic like celluloid not ivory as a lot of sellers purport. </p><p><br /></p><p>These are pretty deceptive pieces as they are decent enough quality, not to mention old enough to give off the impression of being from an earlier period. Having a 200+ year old piece of laid paper glued to the back doesn't help either. I've come across a few 'professional' dealers selling them as originals from the period: <a href="https://www.proantic.com/en/display.php?mode=obj&id=516098" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.proantic.com/en/display.php?mode=obj&id=516098" rel="nofollow">https://www.proantic.com/en/display.php?mode=obj&id=516098</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Jeff Talbot, post: 2728307, member: 16510"]For everyone's information, on closer inspection it looks to be mostly hand painted, and most likely on an early plastic like celluloid not ivory as a lot of sellers purport. These are pretty deceptive pieces as they are decent enough quality, not to mention old enough to give off the impression of being from an earlier period. Having a 200+ year old piece of laid paper glued to the back doesn't help either. I've come across a few 'professional' dealers selling them as originals from the period: [URL]https://www.proantic.com/en/display.php?mode=obj&id=516098[/URL][/QUOTE]
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