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Message:: [QUOTE="Walter Del Pellegrino, post: 181034, member: 90"]Thank you maryisigal and Taupou. Its quite an honor to be elevated from an expert to the "Top Expert". Unfortunately, I do not deserve either titles. I am simply, like yourselves, a collector. I still, after more than 40 years of collecting, make mistakes when identifying the works of various artist and I still find myself occasionally stumped by some marks. For example, the other day I was asked to confirm a large charger as being from the Cantagalli studio. After declaring, at some length, that it was a fake and claiming it didn't even look like the work of an Italian 19th century artist I discovered on a photo of the backside of the tondo what looked like an impressed seal. When I magnified the image I saw the unexpected. After a long-winded explanation of why the piece was not a 19th century Cantagalli I had to contact the plate's owner and redact everything. Her piece was clearly marked by the "impressed" seal of the Cantagalli family and to my knowledge the seal was never forged. So much for my expertise! In any case Thanks for the compliment and your faith in my opinion[/QUOTE]