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Show OL »PAPERMAKIN 10 original method of three dippings and three couchings. These are the identical sheets which wer fashioned by Mr. Brewer for Sir William and wer made, as Congreve states in his explanation, "wit common dye; the paper thick and clumsy." Othe specimens shown were produced "with the interior pulp made from Adrianople red cloth an the paper much finer." T here are also sheets of tw colour combinations made with white and yellow and white and red pulp. Congreve shows one shee in four colours, having used red, blue, yellow, an white material. This particular sheet of bank-not paper was the most complex ever attempted up t that time, and although Sir William stated that i is "crude and rough," the specimen has many goo qualities, and when it is considered that this shee of paper was made in the first years of coloure watermarking it is indeed a remarkable specimen (A facsimile reproduction is given herewith, Congreve also gives specimens of paper whic had been printed upon and then a thin layer o pulp couched over the printing, giving the appearance of a black watermark. All of the thirty-si specimens which Sir William Congreve caused t be made and which are preserved in the manuscript volume, would pass today, even after a laps of over a hundred years, as excellent examples o the art of watermarking paper in colour The Directors of the Banl refused to accep Vgt imago 2004 Mariot iy Unversyof Ush. A ihts reserve |