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<p>[QUOTE="spirit-of-shiloh, post: 2507, member: 32"]I agree with the one comment at the bottom of this story <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.kovels.com/news-news-news/paul-revere-s-thimble-sells-for-over-10-000.html?utm_source=Listrak&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=Paul+Revere%27s+Thimble+Sells+for+Over+%2410%2c000+%3f&utm_campaign=Kovels+Komments%3a+A+New+World+Record+for+Comic+Art+" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.kovels.com/news-news-news/paul-revere-s-thimble-sells-for-over-10-000.html?utm_source=Listrak&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=Paul+Revere%27s+Thimble+Sells+for+Over+%2410%2c000+%3f&utm_campaign=Kovels+Komments%3a+A+New+World+Record+for+Comic+Art+" rel="nofollow">http://www.kovels.com/news-news-news/paul-revere-s-thimble-sells-for-over-10-000.html?utm_source=Listrak&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=Paul+Revere's+Thimble+Sells+for+Over+$10,000+?&utm_campaign=Kovels+Komments:+A+New+World+Record+for+Comic+Art+</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Making attribution without a mark is always difficult. In favor of attributing this thimble to Revere is the similar or identical thimble in the MFA. Against attributing this thimble to Revere, and I think a stronger consideration, is the engraving. The engraving is simple and shows no evidence of skilled artisanship. Revere, however, was a highly skilled engraver.[ATTACH=full]387[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="spirit-of-shiloh, post: 2507, member: 32"]I agree with the one comment at the bottom of this story ;) [url]http://www.kovels.com/news-news-news/paul-revere-s-thimble-sells-for-over-10-000.html?utm_source=Listrak&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=Paul+Revere%27s+Thimble+Sells+for+Over+%2410%2c000+%3f&utm_campaign=Kovels+Komments%3a+A+New+World+Record+for+Comic+Art+[/url] Making attribution without a mark is always difficult. In favor of attributing this thimble to Revere is the similar or identical thimble in the MFA. Against attributing this thimble to Revere, and I think a stronger consideration, is the engraving. The engraving is simple and shows no evidence of skilled artisanship. Revere, however, was a highly skilled engraver.[ATTACH=full]387[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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