Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-03-28
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nsed WHAT one artist has done another OF
equal skill may initiate, or the original artist
may for fraudulent purposes copy. ! oner
then method that have invented, by when
plates can be produced thai can neither be lml-
tated by the artist who produced them, nor by
any other. This method is by using glass
plates. -,
In common notes there is, besides the
words and characters that go to compose the
note, some emblematical representations, sucA
as a coat Of arms, a building, landscape, &c
all evidently wrought by hand. Now IN tne
glass plate notes, let there be the usual WORDS
sc. but instead Of the emblematical parts let
there be yariegatcd representation which
shall be the work of chance-Let the etching
be performed by the chemical action OF NOR
dant. The engraver then by which limitations
can be SO dexterously executed VIII DC rem
dered in this case quite useless.
A glass plate will give h'teen or twenty
thousand impressions good proof, while the
copper plate will be worn out with tour thou-
sand Copper can be engraved IN hundred
different ways, while glass can be only en-
prayed in two Ways-.-with fuorlck acld and
with wheel.
The yariegated marbling produced on glass
By a chemical agent can never be initiated oy
any thing else--even the saEae person cannot
produce two similar plates.
Can the imitator, bafned on glass, resort to
copper and apply the engraver: Can ne,
(suppose him to initiate the PRINT exactly
make complete contradiction! No'-the
glass differing in It's nature from the copper,
and the manner of operating upon thena being
different, those differences must produce very
different effects--but sill, could they be the
same, the Impressions would have a different
gloss and an appearance in every way different
which gives the great DEsIDERATuM--a ME-
hod cf producing prints that cannot be lmi'
tated.
therefore declare to all the Banking Corn
Danies in the United States, that if they Will
adopt INV method, the public VIII be no more
defrauCed with counterfeit notes, and their
notes snail on account Of that security OBTAIN
currency and credit which they cannot O
therwise acquire.
IL. BOULDER,
Artist and Manufacturer at Plttsburg.
Having examined glass plate executed by
MIR. Boulder, and an impression taken from 1t
y pronounce without hesitation, that bank
notes may be made by that method which can
not possibly be counterfcited. It presents a
discovery which will perhaps be rcckoned "a
mong the most valuable improvements OF
modern chemistry. It will probably be re-
collected that MIR. Boulder offered, about four
years ago, to engraye glass Plates tor the Z.
States bank, and that they, with the lliiterall-
ty which Characterised their institution rctus-
cd to accept the offer, telling him that they
wers satisfied with their own notes, and did
not care whether they were counterieitid or
not--their clerks could distinguish the gcnu-
inc ores from the false---the lcsses therefore
that would occur would f.H Oil thepuoilc pro-
noted the gains Of the banks. 1t was ack2o#-
lodged that Nh. Boudier's plan would answer
the purposes il was intended ior, but that had
become OF no importance to them however
important it might be to the rest CT the COM
munity.
Dishesrtened and Disguised at this narrow
and ungenerous policy, he PCT up his plate,
and has not said word more about II until
now that he believes himself among people
directed BY better Views--whcrc associations
IN pursuing their own Htercsts viii be d'spos-
ed also to consult those CT the community.
AS an artist Mr.. Boulder possesses very
considerable merit. have now in my Office
an unfinished plate engraved by him Con cop
per-imperial folio size) with eqaatiat and
etching which the public have been deprived
Of by the impolitic parsimony Of few ind-
yiduals.
In commencing Mr.. Boulder (who was un-
til yesterday totally unknown to me- have In
view the interest of the community--but |
have mora--I have a sincere desire to procure
for a strsnger-a man of taste and talents, that
patronage which he deserves.
There is another thing which it might be