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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Figtree3, post: 460378, member: 33&quot;]Well, you may not be retiring on the piece, but it&#039;s interesting!</p><p><br /></p><p>Looks like the mat is acidic. I know you are not keeping this for yourself, but if you were -- it would be a good idea to change the mat!</p><p><br /></p><p>And as Debora suggested, taking the backing off might reveal more. It&#039;s true that the Joseph Turbolente born in 1909 would have been 59 years old in 1968. Having no context for the piece that you have, nor of that Joseph&#039;s life and work, I can&#039;t tell whether it&#039;s plausible for it to be him or not based on his age. But I take the point that it&#039;s a possibility that the piece is too &quot;1960s&quot; looking for somebody who is older not to have been able to adjust their style enough to have done this work.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, the patent I found was for a masking method to be used in commercial artwork, although he listed a lot of other possible ways to use it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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