Thread: Tobacco cards: what was the original art medium?
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Old 08-24-2006, 03:54 PM
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Default Tobacco cards: what was the original art medium?
Posted By: Gilbert Maines

Certainly wood is not as durable a tool for printing as current technology allows. Can you distinguish degradation in the printing attributable to wear of the block over a print run? Were back up carved blocks occasionally necessary?

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