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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ZoidMeister, post: 7633580, member: 114169&quot;]Great link!&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The Franklin Mint ad prototype and the print in the OP were done circa 1971 from your information.&nbsp; I believe that Rockwell was using himself as the subject for the elderly gentleman in the painting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Take a look at his &quot;self portrait&quot; below created eleven years earlier in 1960.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1313125[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now add eleven years to the image above, and I believe you will have a clue as to who &quot;The Collector&quot; was patterned after.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Notice the same type of glasses, same style of pipe, very similar proboscis features, add a decade more wrinkles and a lot more gray in the hair.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1313126[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I think you are looking at yet another of Rockwell&#039;s &quot;self portraits&quot; . . . . . </p><p><br /></p><p>Z[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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