Report of the Committee of the Society of Arts, &C. Together With the Approved Communications and Evidence Upon the Same, Relative to the Mode of Preventing the Forgery of Bank Notes
Report of the Committee of the Society of Arts, &C. Together With the Approved Communications and Evidence Upon the Same, Relative to the Mode of Preventing the Forgery of Bank Notes
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1819 edition. Excerpt: ...by the use of which the Bank might print their Notes better, and moTe expeditiously than they can at present, and the persons employed in printing the Bank Notes would avoid the injuries which they frequently sustain by the exertions they are obliged to use in turning the cross. Should the Society think there ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1819 edition. Excerpt: ...by the use of which the Bank might print their Notes better, and moTe expeditiously than they can at present, and the persons employed in printing the Bank Notes would avoid the injuries which they frequently sustain by the exertions they are obliged to use in turning the cross. Should the Society think there is any merit in these communications, much of the credit will be due to others who have kindly given me their assistance, the particulars of which I shall have great pleasure in explaining to the Committee, to whom this subject may be referred. I hope those gentlemen, whose plans for preventing the Forgery of Bank Notes have been already approved of by the Society, will not consider me as their rival, but as being anxious to concur with them in endeavouring to accomplish so important a purpose. I remain, Sir, A. Aikin, Esq. &c. &c. &c. Secretary, 8?e. fyc. R. H. Solly. A Description of the various Compartments of which the Plate is composed, and of the Difficulties that would be encountered in attempting to imitate the Same, by any other Means than those by which they were executed. The description of each compartment will be given separately and unconnected with the rest, because it is not my intention to submit the present plate to the Society as the best model which could be devised for a Note, but as containing specimens of engraving by hand, and by several different machines, all, or any of which, might be made use of, with a view to render the Forgery of Bank Notes, not only more difficult, but considerably more expensive. The centre compartment, contains a head of Minerva, enclosed in a moulding of concentric ellipses, and encircled by a wreath of oak. For this beautiful specimen of fine art, I am indebted to the kind and...
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