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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ValerieK, post: 354453, member: 7360&quot;]The dedication is to &quot;Monsieur Allegrin&quot;, who had lots of positions of authority in Rochefort.&nbsp; I looked him up on Google, and there is a passage in a French dictionary of biography which says he entered into the service of the navy at Rochefort in June 1764, and retired in August 1775, so that should narrow down the date of the engraving.&nbsp; The label of the framer, Georges Andrieu, has plenty of age to it too, by the looks of it![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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