| On the previous page we saw that there were many differences between Boyet's all over design bindings, the roulettes that frame the borders are no exception to this. In the six examples shown above in Comparative Diagram 1, there are only two the same as far as R roulettes are concerned. This exercise alerted me to the many differences in this three block type R, Boyet roulette. mainly it is a difference in size, probably Boyet had many more of these roulettes in different sizes however I found a simple way to catalogue them, simply by counting the number of units there are over a length of one inch (upi). In Comparative Diagram 2, this becomes more obvious, the three examples are similar in as much as they are composed of opposing roulettes separated by a double filet, probably Boyet made many bindings with this standard border however the size of the roulette could vary The Davis473 is different from the other examples as it has a dog toothed roulette mixed with an R roulette. |
| In Comparative Diagram 3, we see the P roulettes from 4 all over design bindings. All four are different, the first example is P and we have a fairly good estimation of it's length as 7.86 this is with about 60% confidence, The next is P-2 and in Diagram 4 you will see that we are confident that this roulette length is 8.89 cm. The P-3 appears to be 8.12 cm in length from 4 samples. the last roulette P-4 is from only one sample and without a length. The shock is that almost all of these roulettes are different, if it were not for identical tools within the decoration one might be a bit skeptical of such a mixture. It suggests however that these bindings were not all made in the same period. |
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