Prints, Maps and Books
How to Spot a Giclee Reproduction Sold as an Antique
The framed botanical on the dealer's wall has the right foxing, the right soft colours and a price tag of $340, and you cannot...
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Spotting reproductions, understanding condition grades and edition sizes, and what makes a Victorian bookbinding worth keeping.
Prints, Maps and Books
The framed botanical on the dealer's wall has the right foxing, the right soft colours and a price tag of $340, and you cannot...
Prints, Maps and Books
The dealer's label says "engraving," the price says engraving, and you are standing in a fair hall with a print that might be a...
Prints, Maps and Books
A seller writes "first edition" on a card in front of a book and doubles the price, and most buyers have no way to check the...
Prints, Maps and Books
You have found a lovely 1840s steel engraving at a fair, but the margins are freckled with rusty brown spots and the dealer has...
Prints, Maps and Books
At almost any provincial print fair you will find a box of flower plates marked at 35 pounds each, and a few feet away a single...
Prints, Maps and Books
Take the backing board off a print framed in the 1950s and you will often find the same thing: a brown line running exactly...