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I buy and sell art, this is a mystery so far
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Posted on 10/12/2022 1:59:39 PM PDT by big bad easter bunny

Bought this because it's so odd, it was buried for 50 years plus, up in New Jersey in a carriage house under some floor boards. I have looked at it under a loop, looks like just ink on stone no dot matrix. I think the stone is soap stone, weighs 42 pounds, 12 by 16, the original etching which is easy to find was done in 1948 by Gerome Kaplin titled "the Arabs" on what I think is a 42 pound piece of soap stone.

Never seen anything like it, Sotheby's is checking it out. Figured a Freeper might know.


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: art; interesting; jeromekaplan; limestone; lithograph; lithographic; lithography
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Jad-Davenport-whitewolf

Ceci nest pas une loupe.


21 posted on 10/12/2022 5:21:15 PM PDT by golux
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To: john drake
A loupe (proper spelling)

That was my point.

22 posted on 10/12/2022 5:21:55 PM PDT by M. Thatcher
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To: M. Thatcher

That hit me the same way.


23 posted on 10/12/2022 5:55:53 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: big bad easter bunny

That looks like a lithographers stone. It would be coated with water that soaks into the stone and rolls of the artwork. Then with ink that will not stick to the wet parts (only sticks to the art likely some sort of grease based). Next paper is pressed onto the stone and the ink prints to the paper. This works just like a litho plate on a more modern litho printing press (already becoming obsolete). Lithography, from the Greek for “stone printing. Definition: the process of printing from a flat surface treated so as to repel the ink except where it is required for printing.


24 posted on 10/12/2022 6:25:45 PM PDT by Neverlift (When someone says "you just can't make this stuff up" odds are good, somebody did.)
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To: big bad easter bunny
I think the stone is soap stone, weighs 42 pounds, 12 by 16, the original etching which is easy to find was done in 1948 by Gerome Kaplin titled "the Arabs" on what I think is a 42 pound piece of soap stone.

Never seen anything like it, Sotheby's is checking it out. Figured a Freeper might know.

What you have appears to be a lithography stone. Unless Kaplan hand made multiples, what you possess is the original 1948 etching that all the lithographs were printed from.

Very neat.
25 posted on 10/12/2022 7:07:36 PM PDT by verum ago (I figure some people must truly be in love, for only love can be so blind.)
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To: big bad easter bunny

WOW this is very interesting. I paint and do other art.


26 posted on 10/13/2022 10:27:10 AM PDT by buffyt (Pandemic strikes deep Into your life it will creep starts when you're always afraid step out of line)
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carved on soap stone.... hidden under the floor boards... New England... this is basically the beginning of an HP Lovecraft story.

LMAO!!

27 posted on 10/13/2022 11:45:17 AM PDT by JonPreston
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