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Show 9 OLD~PAPERMAKIN ear 177777 and is reproduced on this page. A lette of Revolutionary interest (dated March nth.1778 concerning this watermark was written to Col Andrew Boyd, sub-Lieutenant of Chester County Pennsylvania, the locatio of the Willcox paper mill. pEN SY This letter reads in part,"Mr Willcox has in his possessio amould for making paper beVA N H longing to this State, whic you are requested to bringaway, it is marked wit the word Pennsylvania in twenty-four places, h did promise if the enemy came that way he woul throw it into the mill dam." During the nineteenth century the Willcox mill executed som elaborate bank-note watermarks for the governments of Greece and New Granada,~the last handmade bank-note papers to be produced in Nort America Joshua Gilpin also used the dove and branc watermark as early as 1789, and possibly from th establishment of his mill two years earlier. Thi mill, in 1793, was using the word "Brandywine as a watermarl as the Gilpin mill was situated o the Brandywine River. The dove and branc wasa favourite mark with American papermaker for we find it used again in 1805 by Thomas Amies the third papermalser to adopt this emblem as trade-mark. Amieswasatone time superintenden Diital image© 2004 Marriot Libary, University of Utah. Al righs reserved |