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clasp bevels
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Short external bevels found both above and below the fastenings on the fore-edges of boards with centre chamfers. Clasp bevels were especially popular in bindings with wooden boards made in German-speaking countries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but will also be found in bindings made in other northern-European countries.
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