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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pat P, post: 584711, member: 201&quot;]Have you looked at it under a loupe? The things I&#039;d look for are if there are any kind of dots in the areas where there&#039;s color and text, whether you can see any foxing (brown discoloration), and what kind of paper it is.</p><p><br /></p><p>If it&#039;s older, laid paper, you would see horizontal and vertical darker areas in the paper but without light behind it, it can be hard to see it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Paper from before the early to mid-1800s can look surprisingly fresh and clean since it was cotton-based. Later paper was usually based on wood pulp, which introduced acid and caused the aging we&#039;re used to thinking old paper should look like.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had a set of botanical bookplates that I knew were from the 1700s and the paper was still rather white.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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