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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 4000964, member: 56&quot;]With multiples you have to be aware that the medium can outlive its creator.&nbsp; Woodblocks produced mid-19th C can still be printed today.&nbsp; And those are real woodblock prints from original blocks.&nbsp; Copper plates, hundreds of years old, can still be printed today. And those are real intaglio prints from original plates.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hogarth plates were printed until the plates wore out; then they were re-engraved and printed again.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hokusai prints from the original blocks, printed using traditional techniques and traditional materials, can be produced today.</p><p><br /></p><p>Amand Durand, in the 19th century, used heliography to reproduce prints from the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries... intaglio prints reproduced using a photography-based intaglio technique.&nbsp; The differences are not immediately obvious, and even the Durand prints are now antique.</p><p><br /></p><p>Books have been published documenting the printing history of Audubon images. </p><p><br /></p><p>Experts can have a hard time telling the difference.</p><p><br /></p><p>Modern printing techniques, like giclee, easily have eye-fooling accuracy.&nbsp; Is it a watercolor, or is it a giclee?</p><p><br /></p><p>Collectors want prints that were printed when there was still input from the artist.&nbsp; Reprints (never mind reproductions) take an enormous price hit, and it&#039;s not simply a question of eye-balling a piece.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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