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Posted By: jay behrens

It is not unusual for color and photographic plates to be removed from books, as this was often done in Victorian times and these plates were framed and hung on the wall. If you watch The Antiques Road Show, you see this types of items with some regularity. The plates themselves are generally valuable, but the apprasers always point out that if they had the whole book, they would have something really special.

I remember seeing one episode years ago where they showed someon who had a bunch form plates from James Audobon's book that was quite large, maybe 14x18. They then brought in a person that just happened to have the entire book with them. The guy with just plates was told they were worth about $500. The guy with book was valued at about 10x that.

Jay