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THE
SCARCITY
RATING IS
BASED ON
THE NUMBER
OF TIMES
THAT YOU
MIGHT
REASONABLY
EXPECT TO
FIND THE
ITEM IN
ANY ONE YEAR
The rating
given to any
particular
item should
be regarded
as purely my
personal
view, not
as factual.
Others might
disagree !
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RESERVED FOR ART DRAWN OR PAINTED BY THE ARTIST. UNLIKELY TO BE ANY OTHER EXAMPLES |
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LIKELY TO BE FOUND MAYBE ONCE A YEAR. RARE |
| 2 |
MIGHT BE FOUND TWICE IN A YEAR. FAIRLY RARE |
| 3 |
COULD BE FOUND UP TO 3 TIMES. FAIRLY RARE |
| 4 |
MAYBE 4 TIMES IN ANY ONE YEAR. SCARCE |
| 5 |
PERHAPS 5 TIMES A YEAR. FAIRLY SCARCE |
| 6 |
AROUND 6 TIMES A YEAR. FAIRLY SCARCE |
| 7 |
AT THIS LEVEL THE ITEM IS NOT COMMON |
| 8 |
COULD BE FOUND WITH SOME RESEARCH. NOT COMMON |
| 9 |
CAN BE HARD TO FIND. NOT EASILY FOUND |
| 10 |
LIKELY TO BE OFFERED 10 TIMES OR MORE. FINDABLE |
GENERAL
REMARKS
The first
thing to be
said is that
this is
NOT a
scientific
rating based
on
statistics.
My husband
spent some
30 years in
the Trade
before
retiring and this is
just a
personal
'assessment'
based partly
on his
experience
combined
with, to
some extent,
current
internet
offers & any
other
relevant
factors we
are aware
of.
The family
has a large
stock of
antique maps
& prints
that were
acquired
over the
years, so
just occasionally
I am able to
offer more
than one of
a particular
item.
PRINTS
Prints are
the means by
which an
artist can
offer his
work to as
wide an
audience as
possible.
The
quantities
produced 100
years or
more ago
were but a
fraction of
those
published
today. I am
sometimes
asked how
many of a
particular
print may
still exist
- an
impossible
question !
There is no
way to know
how many
were
published
originally
nor how many
may have
been lost or
damaged over
the years.
RARE
So many
comparatively
common
antique
books, maps
or prints
are
described as
'rare', that
I have
attempted to
provide some
reasonable
perspective
on the use
of this and
similar
words.
UNIQUE/ONE
OFF
If
you ever see
an offer of
a print that
implies it
is the only
one in the
world (!),
unique or
one-off,
then the
seller is
using a'
terminological
inexactitude'.
By
definition,
more than
one example
of any print
would have
been
published.
ORIGINAL
There does
occasionally
seem to be
confusion
over the use
of the word
ORIGINAL.
For the sake
of clarity,
in my offers
this should
always be
taken to
mean simply
that it was
printed at
the date
stated.
I NEVER
offer modern
day
reproductions. |
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