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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 4299737, member: 56&quot;]I think the paper is machine made.</p><p><br /></p><p>Machine made papers can be patterned to look like laid.</p><p>This is a paper made in 1874:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]347886[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This paper is c1600:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]347887[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>On the first example, note how evenly the light is transmitted through the paper.&nbsp; On the second example. the paper is darker at the chains, lighter halfway between them.&nbsp; This is because when the paper was made by hand, the pulp tended to&nbsp; accumulate more heavily at the chains, but with machine made paper, the lines are mold impressed.</p><p><br /></p><p>The two spots you see on the older paper are called &quot;Vat Man&#039;s Tears&quot;.&nbsp; They are from drops of water that hit the paper as it was removed from the vat but still essentially in a pulp state.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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