| The binding detail shown above comes from Luxury Trades and Consumerism in Ancien Régime Paris: Studies in the History... By Robert Fox, Anthony Turner Routledge, Dec. 5, 2016 (click here to see it). I was searching high and low with Google for anything Waddesdon and stumbled upon this image that you can see with Google ebook. Right away I knew I had hit the jackpot with this and started to check Barber's catalogue. |
| In Comparative Diagram 1, we can see that Barber's DCT 7 type model is exactly like the one shown in the detail shown at the top of the page, in fact the marks and scratches on this imprint match so closely that I suspect that it was this very imprint that Barber chose as his example. Here even though we do not have Barber's book we can learn a lot about W.Cat 8. |
| In Comparative Diagram 2, we see the Waddesdon imprint compared with Barber's Roll 116 that derives from W.Cat 8. We have looked at this roulette on the first page of this Delorme mosaic research, and I show it below in Comparative Diagram 3, this roulette is absolute Delorme proof, as his signature is found within a section of it. Now we see the same roulette is found in W.Cat 8 ,something that I overlooked on the first page. Here we get a glimpse of W.Cat 8 that is another mosaic binding with Delorme signature roulette that will be similar to Tenschert 102. |
| In Comparative Diagram 4, we can see the same imprints as shown in the Waddesson detail that has to be from W.Cat 8. This tool is probably one of the most diagnostically important Delorme indentifiers. Barber has illustrated the type model without the two satellite dots. In this diagram I have taken imprints from one of the most important of Delorme mosaics, Liber Conformitatum (click here to see it) |
| With all these clues, and a lot of Googling, I managed at last to find some actual actual online photos of W.Cat 8! We are going to look at those on the next page... |
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| Even experts are sometimes wrong, before you spend thousands on a book, please do your own research! Just because I say a certain binding can be attributed to le Maitre isn't any kind of guarantee, don't take my word for it, go a step further and get your own proof. In these pages I have provided you with a way of doing just that. |
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