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We have been 16 years on Ebay with excellent track record, selling only rarities.

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We sell each sheet for 20 USD.

Shipping is fixed price 10 USD whatever the number of sheets!!,  and whatever the distance!!

For 1 sheet, just click on "Buy it now".

For 2 sheets adjust quantity to 2.

For 3 sheets adjust quantity to 3. 

Etc...

In order to save on the shipping it is advisable to take at least 2 sheets. Then shipping boils down to 5 USD/sheet.

I will send sheets grouped into one package. By taking advantage of this multiple sheets offer, sent in the same tube, you get a BIG DISCOUNT on shipment.

IN ALL CASES, 10 USD TOTAL SHIPPING.

We sell the very "best for the money" ANIMAL PARCHMENTS available on Ebay.

Each shipping is insured at OUR COST without extra.

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 DESCRIPTION:

Large paper-parchment from the world famous CANSON-MONTGOLFIER manufacture, created in 1557 in Annonay, France. Please READ carefully details hereafter, because one should not expect to receive an ordinary vellum parchment made of one single large skin. With this parchment you own A UNIQUE PIECE OF WRITING MATERIAL HISTORY.

This parchment is entirely made from a PULP OF MIXED DOMESTIC ANIMAL SKINS (goat, calf, pig). The process of manufacture is SIMILAR TO PAPER except that the PULP used is NOT VEGETAL but ANIMAL. The animal origin is obvious from the unmistakable smell of a burning sample piece. It is NOT made out of one single processed animal skin.

The secret CANSON-MONTGOLFIER process enabled the final resulting product to be a THIN SHEET, which distinctly shows the MONTGOLFIER watermark (see photos).

We think all sheets to be more than 100 years old. Imperfections, variations in colors, age signs etc., exist randomly on each sheet.

We are THE ONLY ONES to supply this type of large real parchment on Ebay or anywhere else. If you know about any other source of these parchments, we would be extremely interested to know where, because in all these YEARS nobody has ever shown us any.

The dimensions are: approximately 60 cm x 50 cm (= approximately 24” x 20”),ready to be used.

The diagonal is about 75 cm (= 30”).

1200 sheets were originally available. 

May be used for writing, painting, lamp shading, art, liturgy and religious ceremonies, formal diplomas, genealogy certificates, etc.

This type of parchment, new and never used, IS NOT AVAILABLE ANYWHERE now. We believe it belongs to a museum display of historical attempts to sophisticated writing supports.

It is a natural product, and therefore subject to irregular surface or aspect, inherent to its nature.

The manufacturing process makes each sheet unique, although very similar to any other one.

Variations in humidity and other factors may have some impact on this product, as is normal for real skin parchment, but overall, it will be much more stable, sturdy and resistant than plain paper, under any circumstances.

All sheets are rolled then shipped. Upon arrival, the curl is easy to remove and no unsightly fold will be left in the material fibers.

GOLDBEATING:

Goldbeating is the process of hammering gold into an extremely thin unbroken sheet for use in gilding.

Specfic material is needed to enable the beat process. Formely ox intestine membrane (Goldbeater's skin) was used. Today the few companies active in producing 23 Karat goldleaf for gilders, can replace this material with our parchment, instead of using less satisfactory Mylar as the basis for their cutch, shoder and mold.

We still have about 1200 sheets