ANTIQUE COUNTRY RUSTIC INN BREAD SHOT GLASSES MEN SMOKING PIPES TOBACCIANA PRINT

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Authentic antique folio typogravure print on paper dating to 1893.  Condition is good and generally clean ( one small stain in front of the shoe, of a man smoking a cigarette ) for a print of this age with a few slight buff scratches, some thumb presses and text on back of print. These are linear scratches which do not penetrate the paper. Paper is a satin finish. Print is not full plate and blank margins would have been much wider at one time. Print is from an incomplete art folio book and was removed / cropped from a page. There is text / images on back of print, in which, an impression of the text, can clearly be seen on the front of the print. The back has text and other illustrations, not pertaining to the print. Overall size is approximately 9.75 by 12.75 inches with image size being approximately  7.5  by 10 5/8 inches. Typogravure printing process was cheaper printing process back in the 1800;s.
Title of print is " An Old Wedding Custom ".  Artist is Carl Sohn, Jr..
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