JB/003/342/002

Click Here To Edit

2
Mr Bentham's Plan for preventing Forgery of Paper Money by casting to same
expence. —

want of adequate durability, in the case of engravings made on
metallic or other plates) employ the invention of Mr Professor Wilson
of Glasgow. I mean the art, whereby designs, originally engraved on Copper
are, by means of an intermediate mould, transferred to Glass: a material
in which copies may thus be made in any numbers, each of them
yielding impressions, little, if any thing, inferior in point of sharpness,

to those which would be yielded by the original plate or matrix: — and
these impressions in a number far greater than what the original is
capable of yielding, in the same degree of sharpness: — Glass being less
liable to wear in this way, than any metal, or other material on which
engravings, for the purpose of yielding impressions, are usually made. (b)

Note.

(b) The invention, being held up to view by the Author himself
in the light of a security against Forgery, may probably enough have been
forwarded to your Notice in that character by the Author himself. Lest
it should not, it may be proper here to mention, that an account of it may
be seen in Nicholson's Philosophical Journal, for May 1st 1798: No 15.
being there reprinted from a Paper circulated by the Author, with specimen
which I have seen, and heard spoken of by Artists, as being adequate
the performance of what is promised. — It is there represented, in general
terms, as calculated to afford a security against Forgery: but in which
particular way, it is proposed to operate in that character, is not men
"High elaboration" — "collateral embellishment" — and "peculiar manner of
"some eminent master" — are there recommended in that view: but, that
the subject should be the portrait of some living person, is not said.

Supposing the invention to be capable of attaining its object (a
point on which I cannot take upon me to pronounce; knowing nothing
of the invention, any more than of the ingenious Author; but from the
Papers mentioned above) the advantage in point of economy promises to be

Identifier: | JB/003/342/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 3.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3
Box	003	Main Headings	manual of political economy
Folio number	342	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles	thoughts on the means of preventing forgery, in the case of paper money: particularly bank of england notes / of forgery in the way of fabrication: particular safeguards proposed
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2
Penner		Watermarks	1798 am
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1798
Notes public	"mr b is not quite certain with regard to the correctness of the copy, not having examined it himself"	ID Number	1752
Box Contents