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Show OL ~PAPERMAKIN printed between 1450 and 1455. In these tw watermarls there is a striking resemblance. N doubt one was a copy of the other and they wer supposed to be identical. It is probable that so lat as the fifteenth century two moulds were used i working at the vat, the same as at present. Eac mould had a bull as a watermark and they ma have been made by two different worlsers, eac one trying to rival the other in design but keepin the same size and contour. The small marks o the outline wires of these devices were caused b the sewing-wires which held the watermarlks t the moulds-and not by the use of solder as som writers contend. The paper used in the 42-lin Bible, from which the two bull watermarks wer traced, is of the finest quality and texture and i many ways has never been excelled After watermarking became general, during th fifteenth century, itis seldom that a sheet of pape is found without a distinguishing device. Thes emblems in most cases were placed in the centr of the sheets, or where the paperwas folded in boo printing, but it is not unusual to find two symbol or designs each appearing in the middle of the halfsheet of paper. These watermarks, from the origi of the art until the latter part of the eighteent century when they began to lose their simplicity may be consistently divided into four divisions The first of these classes would embrace design e Digital image© 2004 Marriot Library, University of Utah. Al rights reserved |