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How to tell a fake or forgery
Map fakes, forgeries and facsimiles - how to recognize them
http://www.maphistory.info/fakesintro.html
Art: Authenticity, Restoration, Forgery (2016)
David A. Scott
https://escholarship.org/content/qt...abb583c26e373e1d6399daeaf9af2656.pdf?t=qb1u2t
Map fakes, forgeries and facsimiles - how to recognize them
http://www.maphistory.info/fakesintro.html
Ageing a reproduction
Various devices are used to give a modern reproduction at least the superficial appearance of age. Tea or coffee are popular applications. One popular (and very cheap) series of John Speed maps was as brown as chestnut and, being on crinkled paper to give the supposed appearance of vellum,
Art: Authenticity, Restoration, Forgery (2016)
David A. Scott
https://escholarship.org/content/qt...abb583c26e373e1d6399daeaf9af2656.pdf?t=qb1u2t
p. 90
Paper and parchment have been smoked in slow-huming straw and stained with tea or coffee.
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