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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cicero12, post: 6063668, member: 114838&quot;]A gorgeous piece of fantastic style!! I much prefer your example to the one you were an underbidder on. Yours just has “it.” </p><p><br /></p><p>The “De Guermantes” collection was reportedly that of the famed French dealer Jean Vinchon who surely saw a number of these staters over the course his long career and I think there’s a reason he held onto this one!</p><p><br /></p><p>For my own collection, I am very tolerant of minor marks and scratches, particularly where they are confined to the field, or else well-hidden by the design. In general “unintentional” defects really don’t bother me (scratches, flan flaws, scrapes, etc). I am far less tolerant of “intentional” alterations such as mounting, tooling, smoothing, etc. The closer these alterations come to the design of the piece, the more of a turn-off they become for me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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