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Show PAPERMAKIN BY HAN IN AMERIC any manner resemble thiscombinationof letters If weare torel upcnthemxearc}\es of Horatfo Gates Jones,the second watermark to b e o outgrowt of theancien bull' mark, wnh(n the border of which fsacloverleaf, or "klee-bl: tt,"lhcold town seal of Ger n3underneath th shfeld fs the name "PE ANIA BT}ux mark occupies one-half th xhgczwi(htl\eioined[nituls"WR" heotherhalfo the paper. Thes watermarks un 1ad thefr orfgi in th Rittenhouse mill a Z 5 tha the Rittenhouses, and offers a serfes of shield and foolscap devlcex l!'n he contends were in use from the yea 1692 onward orthe most pm the watermark {n the paperof the early America books and pamphlets are mdmm t andin many cases undecipherable the marks being sewed into the bindings or cutat the edgesof the. Pege It su;uallynzcexxalytc plece together various fragments toarriv plete watermark; the rese terpretatfon of old papermark as confusfo fs not uncommon onlya few marks that may definitely be classed as having originated i the pioneer Pennsylvania paper mill. The watermark w have foun and which may bereheduponasauthenuchaveheenmadelnhcxfmil and oceupy pages 22.and 23 this mo (1) These twomarks were discovered natnctxmpnnledbywfllia Bradford, Philadelphfa, 1692entitled "Truthand Innocency defende against Calumny and Defamation, Ina lattReport spread abroad concerning the Revolutfo of Humane Souls, &.," by Georg e Keith. Allo the twenty pagesof the pamphletar R ttenhoustc () Thetwovrstermarksinth cpaperuxedmpr(mfng"TheAmencz Weeldy Mercury," Thursday, March 17th, 1720, Number13, This newspapcrWasestzbhshedfnPh(ladclphia,Dc mber 22,1719, by Andr Bradford, son of Wil ia Bradford the first printe fn Penn Jetters NR? and "K R" used {n the watermark are the inftfal o the son, Nichola house fs usuall or Klaus Rittenhouse. Alth 1llfa Ritten e honour of having established the paper mill 1y Klaus was the energetican productiv membe o th when he was sixty-eight, ashort timeafter May 2.4, 1734, when realizing he had bu a few more days tolive, he wrote hiswill famil upo Al rights reserved |