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Easy to mold copies?

I don't want to be the curmudgeon this time -- but wouldn't it be relatively easy to make a mold of an old plate and pop out new ones?

Yes ...

and that is why size is critical to authentication of imperial pieces, since the clay shrinks quite a bit when fired.

Jan-Erik Nilsson

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