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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5445534, member: 110504&quot;]Especially to [USER=111037]@Only a Poor Old Man[/USER], [USER=85693]@Marsyas Mike[/USER], and [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER], I&#039;ve been scared of anything that smells like &quot;appropriation&quot; of this thread, but your books are</p><p>All,</p><p>Mag</p><p>Smegging (not even a recognized bad word, in American English; hence &quot;legal&quot;)</p><p>Nificent.</p><p>I have a couple of single leaves, back to one inculabula and one or two from a 16th-century printing of the Nuremberg Chronicle.</p><p>(...Hate it, but once it&#039;s been done, why argue?&nbsp; As [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER] put it just lately, on the&nbsp; first post of the thread, <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-frustration-and-fun-pompatus-in-iding-the-reusage-of-a-napoleonic-medal-and-minerva-stops-by.373736/#post-5444559" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-frustration-and-fun-pompatus-in-iding-the-reusage-of-a-napoleonic-medal-and-minerva-stops-by.373736/#post-5444559">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-frustration-and-fun-pompatus-in-iding-the-reusage-of-a-napoleonic-medal-and-minerva-stops-by.373736/#post-5444559</a> :</p><p>I would like to mention that I don&#039;t support the altering and vandalizing of most coins, especially ancient or historically important. But if it&#039;s been done already I&#039;m not going to stop enjoying something that&#039;s cool.)</p><p>...Granted that I&#039;m saying, &#039;Teacher, I raise my hand&#039; to everything [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER] said, there aren&#039;t any easily findable pics of those.&nbsp; But while I forget the printing (not first; confidently c. mid-16th c.), the leaves from the Nuremberg Chronicle still have the original, sweetly detailed woodcuts.&nbsp; ...The level of stylization necessitated by the medium&nbsp; is, to verge on the synergistic, almost lyrical.&nbsp; ...Like, for instance, 19th c. ACE woodcuts by Hokusai and Hiroshige.&nbsp; (...Of which, Thank you, I&#039;ve got Exactly None!!!!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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