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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Brassey, post: 3920798, member: 15277&quot;]Final update. The plates arrived. Some are marked on the back Moirinat. Moirinat was a Paris supplier of artists&#039; materials in the late 19th century. The plates are almost certainly Haviland Limoges blanks sold by Moirinat. The mark dates to c1876-1886. </p><p><br /></p><p>The book from which the illustrations have been copied was published in 1877 so this all ties in. The pictures are all entirely hand painted and not printed and hand coloured as I originally thought. They copy the originals to such an extent that they may have been traced. If not traced, the artist was a perfect copyist. </p><p><br /></p><p>So there is no artist EG (other than a talented amateur copyist). They are very nice indeed but unlikely to have much value. (Never mind, it has been an interesting bit of detective work).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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