Collectors often question us about print numbers – what they mean and how they relate to print values.
To begin, lets take you back to elementary school where you may have trimmed a raw potato to create a design. And then by gently placing the potato into some paint or ink, you created a potato stamp that could be applied to a piece of paper. Result: you made a limited edition work of art.
As you can well imagine, the potato started to deteriorate after a few such stampings. Subsequent prints lost the clarity of the first few strikings.
Today, nearly all of the limited editions that are produced can be run in editions of hundreds of thousands before any deterioration occurs. Therefore, the collector should be assured that all prints from a run are identical even the proofs!
During the process, the paper (or canvas) is printed on big presses and stacked to dry in numerous piles. The paper or canvas sheets are trimmed and packed for shipment to the publisher where they are curated, signed and numbered. As you can imagine, the various steps make it impossible to tell which prints were printed first.
So why number at all?
Think of...
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