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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4060353, member: 19463&quot;]I&#039;m an amateur and must have seen a hundred of these so I can imagine how many crossed the path of Barry and the many dealers who are tasked to break the hearts of people who own one.&nbsp; I have never seen one that I believed was struck or a high enough quality cast to suspect it was original Cavino.&nbsp; This certainly includes the British Museum specimen which is fuzzier than most.&nbsp; I know it was cataloged as a Paduan but what is the evidence that the first of these was from that period?</p><p><a href="https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?assetId=1373975001&amp;objectId=3518694&amp;partId=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?assetId=1373975001&amp;objectId=3518694&amp;partId=1" rel="nofollow">https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?assetId=1373975001&amp;objectId=3518694&amp;partId=1</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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