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Show COLOURED WATERMARK 27 as to carry aw 1y with el dhe pulp whete the watermark i tended to ap There are mmym Apccimcns of paper affixed in the back o lum The first twenty-four example Congreve's manuscript volume were [\bnmlcd by the original three dippings and thre c These are the identical sheets which were fashioned b Mr, an for Sir William, and were made, as Congreve states i his cxplanation, ith common dye; the paper thick an clumsy." Other specimens shown were produced, "with the intetior pulp made from Adrianople red cloth and the paper muc finer." There are also sheets of two colour combinations, mad with white and yellow, and white and red pulp. Congreve show one sheetin four colours, having used red, yellow, blue and whit material. ‘This particular sheet of bank note the mos complex ever attempted up to that ti d although Sir William stated that it "is crude and mugh," - specimen has man good qualities; and when it is considered that this sheet of pape was made in the infancy of coloured watermarking, it must be regarded as a remarkable specimen. Congreve also gives specimen of paper with printing on the interior of the sheet, giving the appearance of a watermark in black. This was accomplished b printing with common printers' ink upon one leaf and then couching another leaf over the printed one. He also extracted the colou m the ink, leaving the lettering in white, resembling a genuin watermark made with wire. OF the attempt by Mr. Portal to imitate the Congreve triple paper, the inventor has this t Portal's imitation of the Adrianople red lupl: Paper, el \)ddnts of which imitation will be evident by co it with one o the genuine Adrianople notes below it." While Sir William's specmen is a little more brilliant in colour than :Im of Mr. Portal, would not suggest that the "imitation" was nearly so bad as Si William would lead us to believe Digital Imag © 2004 University of Utah. All rights reserved |