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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4104245, member: 110350&quot;]Map reproductions are almost always on modern paper -- which looks and feels completely different from the paper used for maps in the 16th-18th centuries.&nbsp; And the kind of old maps I&#039;ve bought (mostly miniature maps, no bigger than 5&quot; x 7&quot;, like the Rome map) simply aren&#039;t expensive enough to make it worth anyone&#039;s while to forge them on genuine old paper.&nbsp; In any event, when I was buying old maps, I only bought them from reputable dealers in antique maps and prints.&nbsp; Not from random people on ebay.&nbsp; Pretty much the same approach I&#039;ve tried to take when buying old Japanese woodblock prints, which I&#039;ve also collected from time to time. Or coins![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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