A supplement to Ures Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, : containing a clear exposition of their principles and practice. . to which circumstance no doiibt we may attribute its introduction. The mark is still fre-quently used, but the same change which has so much diminished the number of paintedsigns in the streets of our towns and cities, has nearly made paper-marks a matter of anti-quarian curiosity; the makers name being now generally used, and the mark, in the fewinstances where it still remains, serving the purpose of mere ornament, rather than thatof distinction. Water-maiks,
A supplement to Ures Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, : containing a clear exposition of their principles and practice. . to which circumstance no doiibt we may attribute its introduction. The mark is still fre-quently used, but the same change which has so much diminished the number of paintedsigns in the streets of our towns and cities, has nearly made paper-marks a matter of anti-quarian curiosity; the makers name being now generally used, and the mark, in the fewinstances where it still remains, serving the purpose of mere ornament, rather than thatof distinction. Water-maiks, however, have at various periods been the means of detecting frauds,forgeries and impositions, in our courts of law and elsewhere, to say nothing of the protec-tion they afford in the instances already referred to, such as bank notes, cheques, receipt,bill, and postage stamps. The celebrated Curran once distinguished himself in a case whichhe had undertaken by shrewdly referring to the water-mark, which encctually determinedthe verdict. And another instance, which may be introduced in the form of an amusinganecdote, occurred on
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