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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 411589, member: 5833&quot;]Maybe they were using the brand name as a generic for watercolor paper, the way we use Kleenex as a common noun for &#039;facial tissue&#039;.&nbsp; They did not capitalize it.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The pencil signature on the bottom margin looks like the same hand, but an abbreviation of the name, a bit more than initials.&nbsp; Why in 2 places?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>My hypothesis is that they did not have a blank &amp; had to find a workaround.&nbsp; They clearly had the blanks professionally printed at some time, but doubt the printer sent ones with uneven margins like this.&nbsp; The way the black areas are breaking up/fading out, looks like they were using labels that were copies of copies...:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]143373[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>By putting it in a typewriter.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It was not taken off &amp; replaced.&nbsp; Why this had to be labeled &amp; stamped before they could arrange for more blanks...?&nbsp; Maybe a customer wanting to buy it that minute.&nbsp; They made do with a label that had already been prepared for another work &amp; was waiting to be affixed.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Even as I was noting that, a distant memory was floating up of my mother&#039;s Royal manual typewriter that was already old when she bought it.&nbsp; Think it did not have a key for 1, you used a lower case L.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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