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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4889641, member: 110504"][USER=12789]@scottishmoney[/USER], you nailed it. ...Not that you needed it from here. I've had occasion to wonder about that 3/4ths portrait of James III. Could it have been the work of a French engraver, as a demonstration of the 'Auld Alliance,' just more specifically from the Renaissance era? By comparison, even the profile of James IV, imitating Henry VII, is something of a let-down.</p><p>...I have nothing vaguely along these lines except a less-than-great long-cross of Alex III, and three cut halfpennies of William the Lion. ...Even if I wanted, I probably couldn't find the .jpgs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4889641, member: 110504"][USER=12789]@scottishmoney[/USER], you nailed it. ...Not that you needed it from here. I've had occasion to wonder about that 3/4ths portrait of James III. Could it have been the work of a French engraver, as a demonstration of the 'Auld Alliance,' just more specifically from the Renaissance era? By comparison, even the profile of James IV, imitating Henry VII, is something of a let-down. ...I have nothing vaguely along these lines except a less-than-great long-cross of Alex III, and three cut halfpennies of William the Lion. ...Even if I wanted, I probably couldn't find the .jpgs.[/QUOTE]
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