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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Figtree3, post: 196063, member: 33&quot;]I&#039;ve mentioned this one before. I have not had very many great finds, but once I bought a framed print that turned out to be a real engraving, probably from the late 18th century. It may have been from an original printing plate of this picture by Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717). Mine has somewhat different hand-painted coloring. After Merian&#039;s death her plates were sold to other publishers and were republished.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, I paid $30 and I think they were charging mostly for the 19th-century frame it was in at the time. An expert on botanical art told me it was probably worth $400-$700. (If it had been printed in Merian&#039;s lifetime it would have been worth a lot more than that.)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]55689[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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