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Is it possible that copper plates made to a customer's order (bookplates, visiting cards, "informals" etc.) were handed over to the customers once plates or cards had been printed off? This was certainly the custom for certain classes of stationery in my mother's generation. In fact I still have the copperplate for my own informals, purchased for my own wedding some years ago (I still have the informals too -- their use was definitely a dying custom!). If so, Mark Purcell's suggestion that "Ex Libris" copperplates might be tracked in the possession of private libraries and great house librarians (rather than the engravers themselves) would make good sense. -- *********************************************************************** Germaine Warkentin // [log in to unmask] English (Emeritus), Victoria College, University of Toronto, 73 Queen's Park Crescent, Toronto, Ont. M5S 1K7, Canada Fax: (416) 585-4584 (Attn. G. Warkentin) *********************************************************************** %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%