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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 551950, member: 5833"]Exasperation is more like it. It seems to me the incidence of non-Rebeccas being described that way is decreasing somewhat but will probably never eradicate.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think I did manage to get one common misidentification pretty much fixed, in the pre-Pinterest days, by telling eBay sellers of cameos with the 'Three Muses' that it was the Three Graces. Enough of them made the correction that eventually the correct ID propagated in the same way the error had. The error itself seems to have originated with the Miller book.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 551950, member: 5833"]Exasperation is more like it. It seems to me the incidence of non-Rebeccas being described that way is decreasing somewhat but will probably never eradicate. I think I did manage to get one common misidentification pretty much fixed, in the pre-Pinterest days, by telling eBay sellers of cameos with the 'Three Muses' that it was the Three Graces. Enough of them made the correction that eventually the correct ID propagated in the same way the error had. The error itself seems to have originated with the Miller book.[/QUOTE]
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