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Show OLD »PAPERMAKIN 9 which was quite on a different principle to an hitherto adopted, it was not attached to the moul but to the deckle and lifted off with it, soastocarr away with it all the pulp where the watermarlk i intended to appe "To the Govemor and Directors of the Banlk o England, "As the triple paper which I have had the honour to propose and superintend for the new bank note seems now to be brought to perfection, I thin it is desirable that I'should give as concise a vie as possible of its principal points "First: I feel confident that no imitation of thi paper with a layer of coloured pulp thrown int the interior, can be made without going throug the process of papermaking, and indeed this ha never been deni "T his fact alone therefore amounts to no ordi nary security for most assuredly the forger canno as at present, by various simple means take a piec of common blank paper and produce the appearance of a watermark upon it He must as I hav already observed absolutely go through the proces of papermaking, and moreover to produce the extraordinary clear watermark thus given, he mus discover and pursue a process quite new and littl likely to be suspected even by an expert in papermaking; that is of dipping the three layers of pulp one upon the other without couching, and stil & Digitl image © 2004 Wrriot Library, Uiversty of Utah. Allrights reserv |