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Show THE OLD WATERMARK 30 represents the Virgin holding the child Jesus, but the crudity o execution makes the mark almost undecipherable. The figure fro 500 is meant to portray a pilgrim, havinga halo and holding Latin cross. The next two specimens (1606-1635) are angels, on ~o. 18 A German figure watermark from the middle eighteenth centur supporting a shield with the initials A.P. and an object resemblin an anchor cross. The last two marks, both from 1686, are of German origin and were traced from the same sheet of paper The carlicst watermark of the human head was a_portrait o Jesus Christ, and was of French origin, year 1399 This device represents the Vera Icon, or True Image. The legen runs that the Saviour on the way to Calvary was encountered b the woman Berenice. Filled with compassion she wiped His fac with her handkerchief, which miraculously retained an imprint o the Divine Features, whereupon Berenice was rechristencd Sain Veronica, an anagram of Vera Icon. It is, no doub, the kerchic with the impress of this head that s reproduced in the late fourteenth century watermark Digital Imag © 2004 University of Utah. All rights reserved |