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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 4271154, member: 56&quot;]It looks to me like a chronograph using &quot;Ben Gay&quot; shading mediums.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is from an earlier post of a lithograph that showed the same sort of texturing:</p><p><i>Bamber Gascoigne describes the use of stipple patterns to provide shading on commercial color lithographs (chromolithographs), noting that &quot;The ordinary late nineteenth-century commercial lithograph, sometimes to the eye but certainly through a [magnifying] glass, will seem to have an advanced case of the measles.&quot;</i></p><p><i>These shading tints were first applied to the stone by hand with a pen and lithographic ink. In 1879 Benjamin Day, a New Jersey printer, developed transparent sheets embossed with a variety of tinting patterns which could be inked and pressed onto selected areas of the lithographic stone to produce various types of shading. These semi-mechanical &quot;shading mediums&quot; came to be called Ben Day mediums.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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