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Show V The Watermarks of the Earl American Papermakers FTER the first fifty years of watermarkin in North America, the devices used fo this purpose became uninteresting an commonplace. But during the first hal century of the art there still existed, among crafts men, a love for symbolic design which was manifested in the papermarks of the period. Before th middle of the eighteenth century, superstition an symbolism began to lose their hold upon the artisans and after that time, symbolic watermark and printers' marks and all trade symbols bega to fall into disuse ‘Watermarks with an emblematic significanc were not uncommon in the early papermakin history of America and the pioneer workers o Pennsylvania were responsible for the most uniqu specimens. New England which contributed s much to the history of the applied arts in othe h Diital image© 2004 Marriot Libary, University o Utah. Al rights reserved |