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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pat P, post: 95286, member: 201&quot;]Thanks for the replies and info!</p><p><br /></p><p>Susan, I agree he was an interesting person.&nbsp; I haven&#039;t found any indication that Sarony did this type of work on his own, but did find some Currier and Ives prints that are similar, although they don&#039;t have the blank area at the bottom. My current hypothesis is that my prints were published by Nathaniel Currier while Sarony worked for him, so circa 1836 to 1843. The timing fits, since according to the article about Sarony, later on he used chromolithography to produce prints in color and my pieces aren&#039;t chromolithographs. Chromolithography was a less expensive process, and once it caught on it started to dominate the printing industry for commercial prints in color. The fact that my pieces are hand-colored lithographs and not chromos was the main reason I felt they&#039;re probably mid-1800s rather than later.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yourturn, I don&#039;t have them in front of me at the moment, but they&#039;re around the size of our copy paper or a little smaller. When I have them in hand, I&#039;ll look more closely at the edges to see what&#039;s going on there, also the back.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fig, Sarony&#039;s photo certainly would seem to attest to his being a character! Does the book on his photography talk at all about his earlier work as an artist and/or lithographer?</p><p><br /></p><p>King, thanks![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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