| The binding shown above is found in a 2004 Christie's auction catalogue that you can find online (click here to see it) COLLECTION MICHEL WITTOCK 2EME PARTIE, RELIURES A DECOR Paris 8 November 2004. In the information about this item, the Christies experts state that there is a 1785 Derome le jeune ticket inside. I have arranged many of the Delorme dentelles on the next page and there are a number that are from that period 1784-1785. I doubt whether we could assign a date to Delorme's work of this type as he made many very similar looking dentelles with the same tools for two decades. I wonder if Delorme, who would have been about the same age as Derome and both near to retirement, would be interested in such a project, or if he had the time even to do this. We have touched on this same subject in the moasaics where Derome's ticket is found in an obvious Delorme binding with an inner dentelle that has this same corner tool |
| The Derome ticket in this mosaic is Pascal Ract-Madoux type D 3 as seen in his classification of Derome tickets Essai de classement chronologique des etiquettes de Derome le Jeune, 1989. This exact ticket is shown as example 3 in his Type 1 - D tickets shown below in Comparative Diagram 2. |
| In Comparative Diagram 3, I show Erick Aguirre's photo of this ticket compared with the Ract-Madoux illustration. When I first saw this photo I was shocked to see that someone (Derome?) had cut and pasted a strip from another ticket to hide something written underneath. I thought this was a sure sign of a fake if I ever saw one. |
| In Comparative Diagram 4, we see what may be some of Derome le jeune's first tickets where he declairs himself as the new possessor of his deceased Father's shop. After studying these tickets I came up with the brainwave that the D 3 tickets may have been cut out of larger early tickets similar to the A examples. |
| In Comparative Diagram 5, I attempt show how one might explain the mysterious missing text partially visible in the D 3 example. These might be the next earliest tickets of Derome that were later replaced by the Type 1 B abd C examples. Therefore I have reconsidered my idea that the D3 example is a fake and perhaps it was used by Derome in the early part of the 60's this would seem to be in line with Delorme's mosaic productions in that period. However the next mystery then is how to explain that Derome has his ticket in another binding by Delorme more that 20 years later. One would think that Delorme was very busy and not short of money by the end of his career, perhaps his fortune changed in the later years? Perhaps it is no coincidence that this particular corner tool is found on both of these signed Derome bindings. |
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