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    Perfectly Pretty Prussian Plates (1868)


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    Guest Rick Research

    Have posted lots of illustrations from Beautiful Books over in the Eponymous Research Section :catjava: but since these are PURELY Prussian--

    submitted for your Berlinocentric approbation

    F. W. Hoeftmann, "Der Preussische Ordens-Herold" of 1868. I gots more. :rolleyes:

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    Guest Rick Research

    Herr Hoeftmann was a Geheimer Registrator at the Prussian General Orders Commission, and this was printed by the Royal Press. As official as it gets. :rolleyes:

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    Guest Rick Research

    Suitable for :love: framing!

    Alas, while I have all the 141 year old PLATES, I do NOT have the text they went with. But ther are more, kiddies. Ohhhh yes. Morrrrrre. :rolleyes:

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    Guest Rick Research

    A few more, because they are SO :love::love::love:

    These 1868 illustrations--like the freak show in the middle here :Cat-Scratch::speechless1: suggest a well thought out (if still frakish) thoroughness anticipating weird and unlikely combinations far into a future that never actually happened.

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    Guest Rick Research

    Even ordinary items look special in the glowing illustrations.

    When I started collecting in the 1960s, we were lucky to get black and white reprints of 1940s illustrations. Line drawings--by hand... had NO color. So THESE-- from FOUR GENERATIONS EARLIER are a marvel! Never had ANY clue illuminations like this had preceded our what's-a-computer books. :beer:

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    SWEET !

    I have some old original sales catalogs with some very fine line dreawings

    but nothing to compare to these.--beautiful.

    Thanks for showing them.

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    Guest Rick Research

    Sure! Something for even feminine tastes:

    (There's one that doesn't get much play! :speechless1::cheeky: )

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