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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;springfld.arsenal, post: 46521, member: 54&quot;]&quot;Can I assume this is from the late 1800&#039;s?&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>You can assume if you like but you can&#039;t prove it.&nbsp; Patent date on the mat is only that, meaning the mat could have been made at any date after that.&nbsp; Newspaper was certainly printed on the date shown on it but could have been put in the frame at any date up until the day before you bought it.&nbsp; The shadow of the painting on the mat does show some age.&nbsp; Impressionist watercolor?&nbsp; I know nothing about paintings.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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