Engraving and Repair of Seals and Plates
Engraving and Repair of Seals and Plates
Identity area
Reference code
Publication status
Draft
Level of description
Item
Date(s)
- January 22 0182 (Creation)
Context area
Name of creator
Mess Perkins Bacon & Vetch
Repository
Royal Philatelic Society London
Content and structure area
Scope and content
193
Seal ou
Wood
For Congraving of.
Casting 3 Hereotypes from
"
Do thes
€2.10.0
"
10.6
of
Six weeks from the date of receiving the find
order would be required for the executives;
the seal and about 2 weeks there after for the
wood ents Aftereotypes.
The long
raver would advise
that the seal should be u raved on
Silver
in
prefercuse
Chumate
1
ли
eug
to Steel - in consequence of the
as a steel seal whilts he engraved.
Bishops of Jamaica and which his
for the
fordship took out with her to his davéexe
some years
back, has been lately sent to hims
for repair (being very much laten
rust) and which would not have been
up
with
it had been engraved an
миккалу Ч
if is
is the first vistance.
Selver
Sir, very respectfully
humble savants
мужал
что его
He
Pinakard Eagle
My lord,
your hev BBP
69 Steet Street
weakened before being hardened from the
the Plates if it
wear most
of
194
-
not all are in
such a state that they ought to be destroyed
ved and
rep.
lace do by
new ouls which
benig
hardened
befores prisiting would last.
any
year
m
Aur Mt. Baevre has examined the Dies – alb
of whiits (with the exception of the flat revelan
dies for the body
the body or story of the Bills, which have
been altered suice they
west
made) will enewer
agario. We would therefore most respectfully
recommend that
не
Bill Plates
-
flat secular die be
made which shall corresponds with the present
Boxchequer Bills & that a new set
of
be made fover the dies & hardened before using.
Your fordship will observe that haveing the original
a whole eet of plate is exceedingly
dies, the east
trifling & that these
refore
we cannot be actuated
by pecumiary motives, but by the public good
is recomending
We could.
a new set.
prepare the new
flat
teircular dio
that ow
to the tex Cexchequer Bill Plates upon Steel and
hardened, in twenty five days foven
which we received an order- & if the
we would have the to 1000 *#100 which sun
cio Ce
at
January 22 182
Your Lordship will probably
neollect that when we
first had the honor
preparing the Plates for the Exchequer Supply
Bills you ordered many thousand impres
pruited from them by which they were
considerably work, before hardening, as you. A Flat
fordship anticipated alterations is the stor
of
the Bills which afterwards took place.
Whew the present plan was
шатинов
ture of you
Lordship ordered them hardened, suve
which
шиль
they
have taken many
маму
impressives and being
and our che
charge
tive pressed
-
would lie
4.
ов
much the largest numbers ready for printing
Eightiers days,
follows vix;
as you H. a flat original Die containing the centre ?
the bottous five for all the Exchequer Bills (21. 01.0
a circular die for the lower part of ?
billy
the waiting for all the bitte 17. 17.01
2 Steel Plates for Fronts of Exchequer Bills fort 1000 239%. £6.6.1
thousand
кол
uuch
2
so
Backs
-
De
407. 4.11.11
£49.3.0
Conditions of access and use area
Language of material
- English
Notes area
Note
Summary: The letter discusses the engraving of seals on silver or steel, repair of a bishop's seal from Jamaica, and recommendations for making new hardened dies and plates for Exchequer Bills. It emphasizes the public good over pecuniary motives and outlines timelines and costs for the work.
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Date: January 22 182
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