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<p>[QUOTE="springfld.arsenal, post: 101447, member: 54"]My printer friend had some suggestions although he didn't know a lot about the details you probably want.</p><p><br /></p><p>"...So I cannot authoritatively comment on the construction of this plate, nor on whether it’s style or subject matter date from the 16th C. As you know there was a great antiquities revival in the early 19th C. and numerous items from two or three centuries before were replicated, to a degree. I think Marius will have to bite the bullet and visit someone knowledgeable about early printing technology, and artistic style(s) being used, perhaps of bookplates particularly, to find out what he really has. I’ve always thought most illustrations before about 1800 were engraved; that block printing was used as a cheap alternative in some cases for small uses. And bookplates could have been one of the uses for block printing. Although I’ve noted I am no source to quote, I thought metallic plates didn’t come into being <a href="https://www.antiquers.com/x-apple-data-detectors://1" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/x-apple-data-detectors://1">until the 19th</a> C. Cutting one even in lead would have been a daunting project. And acid etching one in lead not a skill yet, if ever, mastered. Marius seems to be most interested in what the plate’s value might be, and trying to gain some idea via the Internet. But I think he will have to spend some money and travel a bit to get an opinion first hand...."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="springfld.arsenal, post: 101447, member: 54"]My printer friend had some suggestions although he didn't know a lot about the details you probably want. "...So I cannot authoritatively comment on the construction of this plate, nor on whether it’s style or subject matter date from the 16th C. As you know there was a great antiquities revival in the early 19th C. and numerous items from two or three centuries before were replicated, to a degree. I think Marius will have to bite the bullet and visit someone knowledgeable about early printing technology, and artistic style(s) being used, perhaps of bookplates particularly, to find out what he really has. I’ve always thought most illustrations before about 1800 were engraved; that block printing was used as a cheap alternative in some cases for small uses. And bookplates could have been one of the uses for block printing. Although I’ve noted I am no source to quote, I thought metallic plates didn’t come into being [URL='https://www.antiquers.com/x-apple-data-detectors://1']until the 19th[/URL] C. Cutting one even in lead would have been a daunting project. And acid etching one in lead not a skill yet, if ever, mastered. Marius seems to be most interested in what the plate’s value might be, and trying to gain some idea via the Internet. But I think he will have to spend some money and travel a bit to get an opinion first hand...."[/QUOTE]
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