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• 12 April 1847 (Creation)

Royal Philatelic Society London

287 N expense it would somewhat diminish the Estimate but not much either way. the will prepare & subuntdrang for your approval in a few days day or humble ferit Meft's Wrather Brother Po N Deautir, London MarJuly 1847 Dear Sir, 182 288 Notes Feet Street Your Plate has this moment zip to dress when your Note (byhand) arrived. The Other by Vost is not yet at hand. We will get 200 of the new Certificates printed Oddlingered by 11'clock on Tuesday Morning, with the type butive fear they cannot be bound by that time Although we will attempt it. The live printings render it impossible to have them ready Monday Morning We done, Dear Sir, respectfully Four letter of the Mestwardul CrMoate Esz received offering and at an intergesen bithice last fearcels prige. had if you proved inferior touhat you had of years supplied, dwe could not take more from you without first having a small samp Cadr Wenable us to ascertain its quality we cannot change our Colour, nor increase our price, so that we donot see how we can give you an order for our New Colour at all We received our ser supplies from spr attogether there wontil you until you sent us a bad articles for a long time persevered in callich it an food thus forced us with regret to pine us a New Jum Zahewlden another houst Lowe biur Orderst We are, Deartir, Your humble Sprots AB John Rausthorne Esz Your humble Servi Messr Perkins Bacque Welch present their respectful Compts to Mr. Borraso Thave the hover D. Sinding by the Bearer all the Plates fine good Bonds (as substitutes fortheve shōill in thembe Kall the spoilt Bonds & Paper also Mest» & Be fret, the delay in time & the number spoilt in re- -placing the 5 Bonds, butit is very slow difficult world to prjut & plates in four different Colours because the proper shade, of Colour must be arrived at & the proper funch of the thes obtained for each the lue 8 Plates as much so in order topel 5 fronts Balbes as would be requisite to print a ten thous Hofg Fleet Wreet 12 Ampelt 1847 C 290 209 Dec 182 Greeterman London – 30th Ripust 18457 Jour Javée of the 17th Just was received yesterday kits contents have had our attention. Is Mestre Rufford & Wrapz's Stouring State was not engraved by us & we have not Seen auc Mur ouvir. any of the forgeries upon it we can say nothing with cortainty on that point but with toorduch assumption, we may say that the Successful Forgery of the Notes Bother degraver- does not necessarily imply equal openness to ou -cess with ours. Sour Prole however has farless sen than when left to our discretion we invaria produce & therefore we dare not say e not say that itisat Hans sham present safe. If you with to keep the present fron you a sprain four then plate we should advise the use of aback to the rig Palast for which if you use a use a general back would only ad leventy Shillings of 1000 to the present expense tung believe effectually secure it. Or without aback by the application of a New Vetect of ours abancfus Alundve shillings per 1000 we beleive you by the for on Gually secured. Sometime back the Quastatie, ended to do the Raguerreotype & the Electrotype processes mon made much noise in the work called the Art Union & elsewhere & the confident statements made of Some at least of their powers rather alarmed di us lagive such attention to the subject as resulter in discovering a process by which they can all and dis padres in mort fully byline be defeated. This has been Peter I we have the Machinery ready and can apply. tonotes at a moment's notice butas itinvolvesan extra expense though a small one, we have not by Waywalone. Canlu offered it to any of our Customers until we see them really to be in danger – for none the statemen of the powers of these trocesses were when put forth at all true as regarded our Moles. asry His easy ma hetter toepflan this subject clearly & fully but it is professed that the Daguerreotype process will begexposing anote in a certain way with its back to the Sun, enable a clever party to produce an exact Copy bymeans the rays flight thrown upon it. And for the Anastatie process if is also pro- Jessed that by a peculiar process the outreau betaren Proma real Note Boattached & britten into another plate asto produce aperfect face- simile. As before stated when first broached, neither assertion, assertion was capable of proof, nor we know that they now are, thoughhannich domach, nordo. Succeded with Letter Prest they may possibly have reached to Copper Plate unitation also, Now our invention meets if we mistatre not both these operations perfectly foils them for if the imitation be attempted by means of the rays flight, thewate qe indent into the Centre of the Note would müte Any worth produced in this way amass of confusion W the engraving altogether broken up. Andisithe atteulpted by subtracting the Arts from the sur face of the Mote, our Jelan not only fathens the intr date into the Paper buck is taken off which it could not be it would leave no but at all in outh at all in the Copy, in lace work pattern is all those parts where impressed on the original Note our. Withave subjected our plan to many tests Hare quite willing it should be subjected to ang butifuct, number more for we beleive it safe, but if not, 292 291 N we so wish to know it, the greater part of this len has been written under an impression thatzge did not use your Bach State burtuvefund you do, therefore are confident your note cannot be unitated by the Daguerrestype process Edon ther. Wehauchowever beleine it will be hiventic have our hepleasure of anclothing Your £5 Mote plate inspressiones from New method upon them. One is imprinter ou the note as adry Stamp attogether & the other is partly dry & partly printed this last wetting thebest. We also send one of each Kindimp ouplain Paper for we notonly hold them the Sieure without abach but the bach istralher you Seen an injury acit prevents the pattern being to toas good advantage, alch might Merivise be Byholding the lote up to the you can at once detect the pattern in a Moteur has it bits absence when the note has it not. The work itself would possess zan Security against foyery bit combined with the power & machinery necessary to produce our effect would by any oneand but the employment of the same Machinery as we use, be impossible the hope my grave now made the Senttemon, very respeto Your oved? Serols necessary Subject clear to your Page, Fentlem Mysors Taylor & Sloy's wit the are quite wellnotinuse, but the surette to to have your pilates tossed w to secure the real plates from being tampered with to never table them out of our Custody Mustestenour respecti Dear Sir, Hole Heelspreek 17/640-1847 The accompanying Jaccounts Allonit noran reng were ordered, and supposed, to have been ren -dered in Feby Fnovember 1815-8april 1846 but on enquiry of Mr. Collingwood, Cinzaur absence), Milbilles, Janother gentleman whom they referred us to, in the Establishugut, it appears that neither these, nor Accounts belonging to your departmentham and bene been paid no or have been audited since that time. Should you find the correct as we are convinced you will do, we shall be obliged by your having them Audited for paquent together with our other account for 19-Me- rendered a mouth back. the are, Dear Sir, very respectfully William Keith rez 8. Pentlemen, Your obert Brot ABER log Fees Street 7th October 18817. Sheet Altho' we cannot afford to reduce theprice we now charge for Paper Phuiting your Bill Head Jitate with 3 legnettes, still as Machine, paper will answer (which we now enclose a instead of Handmade, we can put the larger size now wanted at the old price, &ive will engage to renew the Plates when worn, without any charge for doing the sense, We are, Buttum Be W. Pontifex Vilbood.

• English

Summary: The letter discusses the delivery and quality issues of plates and bonds used for printing, mentioning delays and difficulties in achieving the proper color shades and quality. It also refers to the replacement of spoilt bonds and the challenges in printing multiple colors.

To: John Rausthorne Esq

From: Messrs Perkins Bacque Welch

Date: 12 April 1847

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