The Modern Forgery Hypothesis

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Well I'll be... darned. I wanted to look at this years ago, but dropped the ball until just now. It looks like I have a field trip in my future:

"The James McBey collection of watermarked paper : fifty-seven original examples of paper made in Europe from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries / together with a catalogue by Colin Cohen and an introduction by Nicolas Barker."

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I knew that book existed, and referenced it to Bluetoes101, above... but I'm not sure if I went as far as looking it up, until just now.

I wonder if he kept a record of who sold him that paper, with that book? I wonder if there are examples of the Tre Cappelli watermark? And if so, it is the same Tre Cappelli watermark, not a variation?

Well that is getting way ahead of this issue, and a very, very long shot. But its worth a trip, or, an excuse for one...