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• April 24, 1845 (Creation)

Royal Philatelic Society London

154 153 For Litters of Credits including Mate, Paper, thuiling is whole sheets Cheeks. da Bills of bechange Slips Do Don Letter Sheets Credit or Deposit vecipts Da 5%. 5% perso 1/9- 11 3½ – Da Da Should don 6/6. do 2/9 wish any other information shall be happy to furnish it, face Liv, - " we you Alexander Blair Esgre one the veux respefully. Your Fille Lis 1.3. month Mess. Perkins Basan etch present their respectful compliments to M. Prevylian they to inform him thu that their former practice was to preserve their Hub plates from met by rubbing them every fur with a face coating of puse muuttors talles but for some tuire past they have used Brunswich black which is rubbed on with a counou pambe burch sufficiently thick to cover the surface they fund it will keep good for 12 or 14 mouths softer "longer. Mess. P. BPP. purchase theirs of N: 41. Water Lave, I leet Street but it can be had of almost any oilmano. 69 Fleet theet M. N. Minter aw 几 interested in two modem discoveries, vix: the improved Daguerotype and the Quastatic processes The former withed professed to produce its results by рошей rays of light thrown upon an engraved print other object frame the reverse side, and the latter on Quastatic process by the removal of the site frame рано the Note or other print to be miitated by means of acid, peruachaily applied thereto &ther weing it in the unistations. In the first place it may belief that wither of have yet being sufficiently perfected to endanger your previously secure notes. and we do not entertain any great fears from the Dagueroly pe eyes has been accomplished, un to the statements of what the proprietors profess ability to do, we have proper to state our but as for 00 we cannot shut our several mvceths turned our be these discoverie to that which allection to the аго subject and have secured a Patent and are producing the machines for working it by which Custouses may quite confident either of the шь are all our be preserved from any danger from above named processes however perfects they may because. We have shewes the Allowey Generallas April 24th 1845. ано London April 24. 1845. liv, Agreeably to your request we give you such information to beg as at present in our in relation to the security Bankers Notes. of powver Until within a short period all our Customers whe had adopted a reasonable amount of work upon their totes were (as experience proved, sufficien secured; but of late much excitement has been prodicted by the assertions of parties who are N машев the any Patriots was opposed, twe have had the pleasure of thewing you in a wough way principle of that which we propose to do, and which is to prepare work upon the whole, or other doemiients, part of the backs of notes or produced by delicate machine or other patterns embedded in the paper by very pourerful pressure without any colouring matter by itself to combed with the patters or other work printed with coloring Machinery. matter; has we completed nor. ано the our Patent yet specified шь is во ни of course cannot 154 153 For Litters of Credits including Mate, Paper, thuiling is whole sheets Cheeks. da Bills of bechange Slips Do Don Letter Sheets Credit or Deposit vecipts Da 5%. 5% perso 1/9- 11 3½ – Da Da Should don 6/6. do 2/9 wish any other information shall be happy to furnish it, face Liv, - " we you Alexander Blair Esgre one the veux respefully. Your Fille Lis 1.3. month Mess. Perkins Basan etch present their respectful compliments to M. Prevylian they to inform him thu that their former practice was to preserve their Hub plates from met by rubbing them every fur with a face coating of puse muuttors talles but for some tuire past they have used Brunswich black which is rubbed on with a counou pambe burch sufficiently thick to cover the surface they fund it will keep good for 12 or 14 mouths softer "longer. Mess. P. BPP. purchase theirs of N: 41. Water Lave, I leet Street but it can be had of almost any oilmano. 69 Fleet theet M. N. Minter aw 几 interested in two modem discoveries, vix: the improved Daguerotype and the Quastatic processes The former withed professed to produce its results by рошей rays of light thrown upon an engraved print other object frame the reverse side, and the latter on Quastatic process by the removal of the site frame рано the Note or other print to be miitated by means of acid, peruachaily applied thereto &ther weing it in the unistations. In the first place it may belief that wither of have yet being sufficiently perfected to endanger your previously secure notes. and we do not entertain any great fears from the Dagueroly pe eyes has been accomplished, un to the statements of what the proprietors profess ability to do, we have proper to state our but as for 00 we cannot shut our several mvceths turned our be these discoverie to that which allection to the аго subject and have secured a Patent and are producing the machines for working it by which Custouses may quite confident either of the шь are all our be preserved from any danger from above named processes however perfects they may because. We have shewes the Allowey Generallas April 24th 1845. ано London April 24. 1845. liv, Agreeably to your request we give you such information to beg as at present in our in relation to the security Bankers Notes. of powver Until within a short period all our Customers whe had adopted a reasonable amount of work upon their totes were (as experience proved, sufficien secured; but of late much excitement has been prodicted by the assertions of parties who are N машев the any Patriots was opposed, twe have had the pleasure of thewing you in a wough way principle of that which we propose to do, and which is to prepare work upon the whole, or other doemiients, part of the backs of notes or produced by delicate machine or other patterns embedded in the paper by very pourerful pressure without any colouring matter by itself to combed with the patters or other work printed with coloring Machinery. matter; has we completed nor. ано the our Patent yet specified шь is во ни of course cannot 155 a give you full description of our place, be frous- frous the above statement as well as it will be apparent to note was и if it what you have seen, минь, a note so prepared by any attempt to forge means of rays of light would be useless as the light would to in some parts (unless t entirely covered) then the work which is upon the front time others a confuxed result without anyregular patteric whatever And there as to the Quastatic method - the ink in the embedded parts of the note will interwovers with the paper than be far stronger it look in the other portions this the Asid the wick from the note would take it very unequally indeed, if the paper itself is - disengaged its cannot be successful parts where the front has been embedded and weirporated with the patters behind it. Another difficulty would be presented to the forger. As the paper would be for higher polished in the embedded parts than rest, the paper would also take the acid very also. unequally twould fail from you er so in the thuines & this cause. our th of this are doubtless aware that the Proprietor of tho Laviour (which process by which the head of appears in the January the of the Art luivu) i produced intends to keep it a sceret. If it is result of any place similar to the Daguerotypo improved (which we believe it to be) a Quastatic process what we have said abo will be sufficient. And at any rate the que great loss of ricturess, forces finish which has ben- manifested in this instance although he hat doubtless the advantage of a good full- 1 r impression, evidently shows that a 156 similar ven etotes with the patent of have described would be altogether attempt on one backing we will not we futile. The new backs we are about perfecting apprehend add much to the expecase of the Note. We must request you woe the wear we should will evesides this communications as at present coufidential for only having this day received our patent, our machilly not being completed thaving four mouths to specify. not have spoken of the subject at all until perfietly ready, had not your applications rendered its necessary. The are Sir, very respectfully Your tible Seats PBYP Alexander Blair Esque шал fio, our. 69 Fleet Street April 25th 1845. was of the 23rd mistard us that the Comptrodles General Order. Thick from might 100 reaus Your letter duly received informing willing to atter Bwo post 19ths to 9% reams, and also that we send a sample of 2 or 3 reams of Laid Demy 24% XX that he would their determine whether he would receive the whole at a reductives of 2/- per ream Что аль obliged for both parts of this communication and have sent herewith Freams of the paper taken unopened from the lot, but find only 120reams mistead of 150 which our man tolet us erroneatly was there are the 22 ust. the quantity when we wrote our letter gond of The are Liv, very resfreefully Ja. Diggins Expre Your obetto Serot P. B

• English

Summary: Mess. Perkins Basan etch inform M. Prevylian about their former practice of preserving Hub plates by rubbing them with a coating of pure muttors talles and their recent use of Brunswick black for better preservation lasting 12 to 14 months.

To: M. Prevylian

From: Mess. Perkins Basan etch

Date: April 24, 1845

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