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FANCY STATIONERY—LACE PAPERS, ENAMELLED PAPERS, & c. [Class NYU.
patented by M. Rc'mond some years after that of Messrs. IDo La Rue and Co.
Messrs. Pinches, Oxendon Street (33, p. 339); Mr.Jeremiah Smith, Rathbone Place (41, j>p. 539, 540);Mr. J. Mansell, Red Lion Square (27, p. 539); Messrs, iDobbs and Co., Fleet Street (79, p. 543); Messrs. Cowanand Co., Edinburgh (101, p. 544); Mr. F. Ralph,Throgmorton Street (142, p. 546): all exhibited goodand well-made envelopes. A collection of envelopes withembossed seal daps, tastefully designed and appropriatefor the use of the several colleges, were exhibited byMessrs. Spiers and Son, of Oxford, (p. 20S 552).
Mr. James Dudman, Camberwell Place, New Road(137, p. 545), exhibited three sorts of self-sealing en-velopes; very ingenious, but presenting no commercialadvantages over the adhesive envelopes already in use.
France. — M. Bkrtou, Rue Faubourg St. Martin, Paris ,exhibited a quantity of envelopes of ordinary make.M. Marion, Cite Bergere, Paris , a large variety ofenvelopes, well manufactured. This exhibitor statedthat he had a folding-machine for envelopes; everyinquiry was made for it, but it could not be found.M. T. P. Yalant, Faubourg St. Antoine, Paris , exhi-bited envelopes of ordinary qualities, said to be cut bymachinery*.
Belgium. —M. E. Tardif, of Brussels , exhibited aquantity of mourning and other envelopes of ordinaryqualities and make.
Zollverein. —M. P. Rum. and Sons, Hesse Cassel , dis-played a series of embossed and printed envelopes.
America. — The Belviderk Company, Richmond,Yir -ginia, exhibited a peculiar description of buff paper forenvelopes, which is in great demand in the UnitedStates .
VIII. FANCY STATIONERY, &c.
It is almost impossible to enumerate the various descrip-tions of articles belonging to this class of goods. Theycomprise albums, scrap-books, portfolios, music-books,manuscript-hooks, writing-desks, cabinets, envelope-cases,portefeuilles, pocket-books, metallic memorandum-books,card-cases, blotting-books, lace-papers, gold printed papers,valentines, embossed boards, wedding envelopes, gold andsilver medallions, fancy wafers, porte-monnaies, and num-berless similar articles. There were several English andforeign contributors of fancy stationery, which will benoticed under the following heads:—
Lace-Papers. —This is a description of pierced paperand cardboard in imitation of lace, the improved manu-facture of which took place in England about 1831.Long before this period thin pierced lace-papers had beenmade in France , chiefly for ornamenting fruit packed incard-board boxes. This particular description of thinperforated papers continues to be made for omameuts,such as lamp-shades, of which M. Devrange, jun.,257 Rue St. Denis (1188, p. 1234), and M. Arrault,136 Rue St. Denis (9, p. 1170), contributed numerousfine specimens; and for borders to mount small religiousengravings, of which Madame Bouasse, 9 Rue du Palaisde Bourbon, St. Sulpice (1102, p. 1230), exhibited somepretty varieties, carefully and neatly got up. Themode of perforating thick paper and card-hoard bymachinery was first applied by M. Marc La Riviere, aSwiss watchmaker, who obtained a patent above twentyyears ago, for perforating zinc and other metallic plates,and established a manufactory at Hackney, near London .Mr. De La Rue having been invited to see this manu-factory, suggested its application to paper and card-hoard, and entered into arrangements with M. La Riviereto carry out this beautiful and novel paper ornament.Very large quantities of perforated card-boards havebeen, and still continue to be, exported. They are usedfor embroidering on with silk and coloured beads.Another and more beautiful imitation of lace is obtainedby a process now extensively in use, which was inventedby Mr. Addenbrook, of London , and applied to the lacebordering of note and other paper. Some specimens,applied to pretty valentines, were exhibited by Mrs. IIider(17, p. 537) and l>y Mr. Mosman (204, p. 832), and for
other purposes by Messrs. De La Rue and Co. (76,p. 541), Messrs. Dobbs aiul Co. (79, p. 543), Mr. J.Mansell, Red Lion Square (27, p. 539), and Mr. Meek,Crown Court, Fleet Street (190, p. 550).
France — M. Marion (609, p. 1207), M. B. Devrange(p. 1234), and M. Arrault of Paris (p. 1170), exhibitedvarious specimens of well-perforated fancy and letterpapers.
Fancy Papers. —These consist of numerous varietiesof papers, printed in gold, silver, and colours; some bylithography, chromolithography, surface printing, blockprinting, in the maimer of calico printing, from wovenwire, as patented by Mr. De La Rue, and also of paperscovered over with real gold and silver, and imitationgold and bronze, embossed or grained by means ofengraved rollers, dies, and plates, of varnished papers toimitate morocco, and numerous other descriptions. Theyare used for the card-board boxes now so generallyadopted for packing goods, for wrapping and orna-menting superior fabrics, and for many other purposes.There were several English and foreign exhibitors: theprincipal were M. Angrand (7, pp. 11G9, 1170), M.Guesnu (250, p. 1188), and Mr. Vandekdorpel, of Paris (712, p. 1213); M. A. Dessaur, of Aschaffenburg ,Bavaria (2 Zollv., 68, p. 1101); M. Freund (6 Zollv.,38, p. 1128), M. J. B. M erer (6 Zollv., 43, p. 1128), andWuest Brothers, of Offenbach (6 Zollv., 44, p. 1128);M. Fechnkr, of Guben (1 Zollv., 26G, p. 10G3); M. E.Moniac, of Berlin (1 Zollv., 249, p. 1061); and Messrs.1)e La Rue and Co., of London (pp. 541—543), at whosestall pattern-books containing many hundred specimensof chaste and elegant designs, were exhibited.
Plain Surface Coloured Papers. —This descriptionof paper is coloured by means of brushes similar to thoseemployed by paper-stainers for decorating houses, but re-quires more care in laying on, smoothing, and finishing,as well as colours of a finer description. It is used bybookbinders, printers, button-makers, confectioners, andnumerous other branches of trade, giving employment tohundreds of men, women, and children. The contributorswere Messrs. De La Rue and Co., who displayed abeautiful assortment of coloured papers arranged system-atically on the plan of Chevreuil, to show the effects ofcontrasting colours; these papers were placed in tworows, about one foot distant, so that as the observer movedthey shifted their apparent position with regard to eachother, a number of different effects of contrast being thusbrought out.
Messrs. J. and R. Newberry, Hemlock Street, CareyStreet (148, p. 546), had well-manufactured gold andcoloured papers in great variety.
Enamelled Papers. —The advance of chemistry asapplied to colour-making is exemplified in the beautifulwhite glossy colour with which enamelled papers are pre-pared. Artificial sulphate of barytes, made from thenative carbonate, was for many years manufactured andsold by Mr. Ilume, of Long Acre, at one guinea per lb.,under the name of permanent white, and used by water-colour painters, who prized it for its unchangeablequalities. It was subsequently applied by Mr. De La Rueto enamelling paper, when the price was reduced from oneguinea to sixpence per pound. It is extensively used bypaper-stainers, both in England and France , for theground of their fine satin paper-hangings. Enamelledpaper is used for printing in gold, bronze, and othermetals, and from its delicate and glossy surface it is alsoused for wrapping superior articlesof manufacture. Thereis another and more expensive description of enamelcolour, with which the highly glazed invitation andvisiting cards are manufactured. These cards were in-troduced in England about twenty years since, by Mr.Sturz, on his return from Frankfort, in which city theywere first made. Mr. Sturz obtained a patent for im-provements in copper-plate printing, and described the; material he used as the “best and purest white lead.”, This proved fatal to his patent, for having obtained an in-junction against Messrs. De La Rue, who manufactured: enamel cards with barytes, Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst| held that the specification was too vague, and that the: commercial name should have been given, namely,