| I want to point out two more Padeloup doublure dentelles these are found in Seymour De Ricci's French signed bindings in the Mortimer L. Schiff CollectionParis, 1935. The first binding No. 6, is unfortunately very dark and printed in black and white not very useful as far as imprint research is concerned, however I have tried my best to squeeze some information out of this reproduction mainly because I have found something very interesting in this dentelle. First I must tell you that this is another tiny book the size of our cell phone example on the previous page. It is found on the inside of a binding bearing the arms of Count Karl Heinrich von Hoym (18 June 1694 22 April 1736). I have read that the Count had most of his books bound by Boyet but after the death of Boyet in 1733, he turned to other binders like Padeloup, this suggests that this dentelle could be c.1733 - 36. A close examination of the dentelle in the enlargement below reveals a very interesting imprint. |
| In Comparative Diagram 1 we see just barely see the details however it is very fortunate that the second De Ricci doubleur, No. 7, has been made with the same tools and the imprints are much easier to see in this reproduction. Even so we need to compare several examples to get a good overall picture of this important imprint. |
| In Comparative Diagram 3 we see that this pj-15-2 imprint that is found in the dentelles shown above is smaller than a very similar looking tools that were used by Dubuisson and Derome. I am not sure where Padeloup got the idea for this tool however it is certain that Dubuisson's example is simply a larger version of the Padeloup model and Derome has copied it as well. We cannot tell if the surrounding dots are in fact small flowers as per the Dubuisson/Derome models. Fortunately the Padeloup pj-15-2 is much smaller, about half the size of those of Dubuisson and Derome, so there can not be any confusion on this point as long as the imprints are reproduced at their correct size and scale. However the differences between the imprint of Dubuisson and that of Derome is another kettle of fish. Even a trained expert would have have dificulty in separating these two imprints without the use of magnification and side by side comparisons. |
| Isaiah Cox sent me the enlarged photo of the pd-15 imprint shown above. I have added the arrows and scale to this photo, to point out a 'flaw' or hole in the skirt (a) and the fact that the space in left arm (b) is greater than that of the opposite arm. These features distinguish this Dubuisson imprint from that of Derome, (small white square = 1 x 1 mm). Below I show Barber's graphic of his RBT 9. Here we are in for a shock as Barber indicates that this dentelle is found in a number of Padeloup bindings this means he had more than one of these tools and that this particular example is identical to the tool that Dubuisson was using. |
| In Comparative Diagram 4, we can see that it is very likely that these imprints derive from the same tool, they are virtually too close in size and shape not to have been. However we see that by the time Dubuisson was using this tool it had suffered some damage, you can no longer see the fine details of the skirt nor the three dots below it that have merged into a blob. As far as I have discovered this is the only Padeloup tool that Dubuisson borrowed and used along with his own tools on later bindings. Barber never realized that the two small flowers that are always found beside this imprint near the top are also part of the imprint. These two Padeloup doublure dentelles are then the same with the exception of the large roulette that was added as an exterior frame to binding No. 7, shown below , it has a length of 10.96 cm. |
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