Autograph collecting: a practical manual for amateurs and historical students Containing ample information on the selection and arrangement of autographs, the detection of forged specimens, &c., &c To which are added numerous facsimiles for study and reference, and an extensive valuation table of autographs worth collecting. . dexterously engrave a name ordevice on a seal at a trifling charge. Mabillon asserts thatCharlemagne employed an ink stencil-plate or an inked stamp,analogous to those now in daily use. This may have givenrise to the assertion that that monarch signed documents with 170
Autograph collecting: a practical manual for amateurs and historical students Containing ample information on the selection and arrangement of autographs, the detection of forged specimens, &c., &c To which are added numerous facsimiles for study and reference, and an extensive valuation table of autographs worth collecting. . dexterously engrave a name ordevice on a seal at a trifling charge. Mabillon asserts thatCharlemagne employed an ink stencil-plate or an inked stamp,analogous to those now in daily use. This may have givenrise to the assertion that that monarch signed documents with 170 AUTOGRAPH COLLECTING. the pommel of his sword. Duchange traces the employ-ment of such contrivances as far back as the eighth Linton, however, in Masters of Wood-engraving, repro-duces Chattos specimens of the monograms of Theodoric andCharlemagne, and declares that they could not have beenstencilled, but must have been done with stamps. It issupposed, however, that two plates were used, one for thebody of the signature, and the other (a smaller one) appliedafterwards to cover the defects and gaps left in the lines, andto produce the verifying marks of the monarch. Sempere saysthat the prevalence of Gothic signatures in Spain from andafter the ninth century is unquestionably due to such stamps. ..^Wiflp^SJf. CHAPTER XXXII. Wholesale Forgeries perpetrated inEdinburgh. E have in chapter xiii. already alluded to thenumber of spurious Jacobite and other papersoffered for sale in large quantities in Scotland,and warned our readers that for the last tenyears dealers have been aware of a constantstream of forged documents issued from Edinburgh consistingof pretended writings of Marie Stuart, Both well, James I.,Charles I., Cromwell, Charles II., Claverhouse, the Young Pre-tender, John Knox, Rob-Roy, Burns, Sir Walter Scott, andmany other eminent persons. The culprit is a man namedSmith who, on June 27th, 1893, was sentenced to twelve monthsimprisonment. From the long durat
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