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<p>[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 578537, member: 56"]Found this from a magazine called "The Athenaeum" published in 1893 (but perhaps you already know it). It really doesn't add much.:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]174335[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Look very, very closely at the print. Is it printed on tissue that has been laid down inside a plate mark?</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's a story that doesn't do anybody much good: Decades ago, I had an engraving that I destroyed trying to fix it. It turned out to be tissue applied as just described. As I recall, it was a sentimental Victorian image... child-with-puppy type of thing, very nicely presented. I recall it having a blind stamp. Might have said printer's association (or anything similar). I was told at the time that it was a company that produced prints on a subscription basis, a sort of print-of-the-month club. </p><p><br /></p><p>All this is very old, half-remembered and vague, but it might give a direction in which to look.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 578537, member: 56"]Found this from a magazine called "The Athenaeum" published in 1893 (but perhaps you already know it). It really doesn't add much.: [ATTACH=full]174335[/ATTACH] Look very, very closely at the print. Is it printed on tissue that has been laid down inside a plate mark? Here's a story that doesn't do anybody much good: Decades ago, I had an engraving that I destroyed trying to fix it. It turned out to be tissue applied as just described. As I recall, it was a sentimental Victorian image... child-with-puppy type of thing, very nicely presented. I recall it having a blind stamp. Might have said printer's association (or anything similar). I was told at the time that it was a company that produced prints on a subscription basis, a sort of print-of-the-month club. All this is very old, half-remembered and vague, but it might give a direction in which to look.[/QUOTE]
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