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  1. moreotherstuff

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    Messilane Well-Known Member

    Oh my! Those are indeed little nuggets of beauty!
     
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    Figtree3 What would you do if you weren't afraid?

    Do you know anything about him or how these came to be? I just tried a search and found very little. They are beautiful!
     
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    I know very little. It's called the Congreve Process or Congreve machine, but I haven't tried to look it up yet. Somewhere there's a book of these plates called The Royal Scrap Book of Embossed Heads. I found an auction record online, unsold, that at least described the book's contents. I would guess the price asked was multiple thousands of dollars.
     
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    KingofThings 'Illiteracy is a terrible thing to waist' - MHH

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    Lovely items. Thanks for sharing!
     
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    I had not heard of Whiting and his remarkable art, but I found THIS interesting bit of information about him.

    THIS is a little history...and Googling "charles whiting" congreve (and clicking on More, then Books) produced links to many additional references...but you know all that, I am sure.
     
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    Good information. Thanks. As indicated by that first article, Whiting wasn't alone in doing this type of work. Another English company was called Dobbs. Whiting and Dobbs collaborated on the Royal Scrapbook, but Dobbs doesn't get much credit even though he was apparently more familiar with the potentialities of the embossing process.

    It was while looking up Dobbs that I came across those auction pages of Georgian Valentines.
     
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