Receipt/acquittance from John Hecklefield to Cornelius a Tilburge

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Color-adjusted paper showing a "COMPANY" countermark
Receipt/acquittance from John Hecklefield to Cornelius a Tilburge. The paper is included in the E. Williams watermark collection at the Folger Shakespeare Library. It shows a "COMPANY" countermark, for the Company of White Paper Makers, chartered in 1686. The same countermark is found in John Bagford's albums of fragments,suggesting Bagford himself compiled the albums himself before his death in 1710.

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Paper showing a "COMPANY" countermark

  • type
    Image
  • created on
  • file format
    jpg
  • file size
    2 MB
  • copyright status
    Public Domain
  • creator
    E. Williams of Hove
  • credit
    Used by permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
  • restrictions
    See the Creative Commons website for details about the restrictions associated with the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
  • rights
    CC BY-SA 4.0
  • rights holder
    Folger Shakespeare Library
  • rights territory
    Worldwide