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Can anyone tell me what this possibly is? Took it to a paper expert years ago who didn't want to be bothered with it at first but then after viewing it he didn't want to touch it with bare hands and said that I should further research it. He described it as "vegetal paper" if I remember right. I asked a book expert about it recently and emailed some photos but he immediately dismissed it as a common facsimile. I haven't been able to find another like it online. I took the photos under two different lighting conditions.

 

Made for the bicentennial market.

 

can you find another online?

 

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https://www.kerstensantiques.com/shop/first-draft-star-spangled-banner-frances-scott-key

 

It's printed by machine, not by hand. The ink is all wrong.

 

the ink is solid black....the hand raises and lowers causing darker and lighter lines..

 

"Crinkly paper reproductions" abound. Sniff the paper, and if it has any vinegary odor at all, that clinches it. Key did not produce bunches of lyrics to be photographically reproduced at the time.

https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/exh...anuscript-francis-scott-key-september-15-1814 shows the real thing (with changes)

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proc...al-manuscript-final-text-star-spangled-banner tells a bit of the story.

 

The Library of Congress has a manuscript of "The Star Spangled Banner" reproduced on their website. See images 3 and 17 here:
https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.100000019/