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Show PAPERMAKIN radem e dove sometimes lacks the branch and is at time quite pnml, l.lr.mn but the identifying name is usually present variously given as AMIEs, AMIES PHILADA, etc. One brand of pape bears the additional mark, coxorzss v, s. Amies was at one tim h o b o [\ & mmwwm@ M Reproductions of seve New England paper mill e by Pennsylvania an superintendent of the Willeox mill at Chester, and after setting up his own establishment he adopted the dove and branch, of Willco origin, as a watermark. A direct descendant of Thomas Willco now living in the ol family home at Chester has in his possessio a pai of mould that wer mc in the old Iv Mills, whic bea the dove and hmn(h water The New England paper m\lls which were founded during th middle of the cightcenth century apparently used no watermarks at least it is not possible to trace definitel many emblems whic originated in this locality. In 1786 Tsaiah Thomas of Worcester Massachusetts, was using a figure of a lion enclosed in an ova Digital Imag © 2004 University of Utah. All rights reserved |
