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This is one of 4 pairs of moulds in the collection and I used to have 3 more pairs which were sold. Since posting M247 I have been in contact with Roger Pertwee of Baddeley Bros, fine stationers and printers in London. They used to have premises at Moor Lane in the City of London and had a range of notepapers called Moreleign which was a play on words.
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These are assumed to be card moulds. Very heavy laid wires @ ~ 2.5 wires/cm with thin wires between every second pair of heavy wires. Whilst these might be thought to be to fill the gap to avoid fibre going through between heavy wires, why are they not present between the other pairs of heavy wires? 480 x 730 mm with tear wires to divide to 3 x 7 = 21. Made by E Amies & Son 1/1926.
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A later version of M217 in a slightly larger size (that is 508 x 634 mm rather than 481 x 559mm). The crest has been changed and the full name of the bank was now used. More photos can be found in the M251 album.
“The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China (or simply The Chartered Bank) was a bank founded in London in 1851/1853 by Scotsman James Wilson following the grant of a Royal Charter from Queen Victoria. It opened its first branches in 1858 in Calcutta and Bombay and then Shanghai.” Wikipedia. “90 Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China, certificate for 1 share, 185(4), scrollwork at left, black, embossed seal, printed by Waterlow & Sons, VF. Incorporated by Royal Charter in 1853, changed its name to Chartered Bank in 1956. Following a few acquisitions it was renamed Standard and Chartered in 1970 when merged with the Standard Bank of South Africa.” From http://www.spink.com/auctions/pdf/8026%20cat%20pp1-60.pdf
Made by E Amies & Son 7/1921
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Stationary was a major part of Hayle Mill's business for many years and apart from a wide variety of papers and sizes, we also produced huge quantities of envelopes. Many were folded from diamond shaped slips. In this case 6 slips were made as part of a larger sheet (442 x 724mm - 17 ½" x 28 ½") which after drying and glazing was torn along the heavy watermark "tearing wires". Moulds made by E Amies & Son 8/1909.
These pictures bring back a sad memory of the closure of Turkey Mill, Maidstone in 1976. This was Whatman's main mill in the 18th century subsequently owned and run by T & J Hollingworth. They switched over to machine production in the mid 19th century and in many respects 20th century production was little changed from 100 years earlier. At the time of closure I visited the mill a number of times, mainly to buy small items of equipment for use at Hayle Mill although I also acquired some archive and museum items. I could not contemplate taking the larger machinery. This included a fine Fourdrinier paper machine, a fabulous and by then rare spar drum dryer and an even rarer diamond sheet cutter. This took machine reels, slit them to the correct width and chopped them to length. A normal sheet cutter has a fly blade turning at right angles to the sheet direction and can only produce rectangular sheets. These could then have been guillotined to diamond slips wasting extra operator time and the offcuts. The diamond cutter had a blade that could be swiveled to about 45 degrees giving great versatility and it was beautifully engineered. It was probably unique by then and maybe a hundred years old. Sadly I didn't photograph it and I was unable to find a new home for it such as the National paper Museum. The Mill was in the hands of the scrap merchant, whose priority was to cut equipment up. Fortunately the Mill has been preserved as a business centre.
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This is one of 4 pairs of moulds in the collection and I used to have 3 more pairs which were sold. To date I have not been able to track down anything about the customer although I do have a fairly promising line of enquiry. This pair is watermarked for fly folding; i.e. the sheet would have be folded in half and then would have been written on each of the four sides in turn with the watermark reading horizontally. Made by G Tovey (date unknown), sheet size 413mm x 533mm
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These moulds are inexplicable. The laid wires are 5 mm apart with no backing wire or cover so they could not have retained fibre, unless maybe a loose cover was applied – if so why? A loose cover would of course obscure the laid appearance. 419 x 496 mm. Made by E Amies & Son (date unknown).
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These are very odd moulds and probably experimental. The two long sheets (261 x 624 mm) were probably for bills of some sort leading to a decision to divide the deckle "the wrong way". I have a few moulds divided this way with a conventional wooden divider which causes a problem of formation when the wave "jumps" over the divider. The use of a thin rounded piece of brass may overcome this problem but might tend to get bent which may explain the channel set into the mould itself. Perhaps the two strips of brass support the divider better. I have no evidence of this theory and very little other information apart from the mould being made by E Amies & Son (date unknown).
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