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Baxter died in January 1867 after being struck by a horse omnibus. Although the Licensees continued to use the Baxter Patented Process for a short time after Baxter's death, the process soon died out due to the introduction of chromolithography which was faster and cheaper to produce.
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George Baxter's
"Gems of the Great Exhibition, No. 2" |
The appreciation and collection of Baxter prints is not just a recent occurrence. Baxter's work became particularly popular at the end of the Nineteenth-Century and the First Baxter Society was formed in 1895 after Dr Lawson Tait arranged an exhibition of his large collection in Birmingham in 1893. The success of the Baxter Society was severely damaged, however, when another Baxter exhibition organised by the Society was a financial failure and resulted in one of the Society's members having to sell his entire collection. The First Baxter Society folded.
Interest was rekindled a few years later by the publishing of several very detailed books on the subject by Courtney Lewis. Prices reached great heights in the 1920s and the Second Baxter Society was formed in 1921 and continued until the start of World War II.
Today, prints by George Baxter and his Licensees are highly collectable. Although harder to find than a few years ago, Baxter prints can still be found regularly at antique fairs, auctions, and shops around the country, with prices depending on rarity and condition. It is very difficult to quote meaningful prices but as a very rough guide a Baxter print could range from £25 to about £500 for the rarer prints, whilst a Le Blond oval could cost between £75 - £400.
The New Baxter Society has been active for seventeen years and as well as enabling contact and communication with other members, is a great source of information and encouragement to new collectors.
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