Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1873-04-12
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The London Spectator, In Nh article sugi
grsled by The recent forgcrles on The Bank
~ England says whether any new me.
chanical precautions against forgery can
DO adopted we must leave 10 engineers and
men Of science, but we greatly doubt H..
Tho world has had n great interest for n
grent many yeay5 In .devising note that
cshncI be forged, and has not found one
yet. Special papers may. no Doubt be
manufactured for special firms, a. one Is
anufaotured for the Bank Of England
but any paper can be initiated, and We
could hardly protect private persons as We
protect the bank, by making II . high
penal offense 10 Initiate or to possess their
babor. II Is difficult TO imagine 1 paper
which could not be inflated, unless II we're
Of a substance procurable only by q few
persons; or colored with o dye the secret
Of which had been carefully preserved;
and no such paper or dye Is yet before the
world.
The Marwarrees Of India use paper
Cor their nccepiances which 10 very in
genious, but which would scarcely BATTLE
European skill. It's a very fine silver.
tissue pa per, almost without weight, and
It's specially is this: No one can write on
II, Marwarree fashion, without Marwarres
ink, any other kind wetting the fine paper
almost to pulp. No skill can overcome
this difficulty without the ink, but in Eng
land tho experts would discover tho secret
of the ink in an hour, and the Marwarrcc
method of holding tho paper and pen in
day, and in n week produce "hondee,"
or bill Of exchange, that would pass
muster everywhere except with the accept
ing firm The paper OF the Bank of Ben
gal, too, is very good, in that it is entirely
beyond imitation except by very frst-rate
engravers possessed of tools as perfe,t ns
those of the agents employed by the bank
itself. The paper only looks cloudy, but
under strong glass is found 10 be COW
cred with lines of microscopic characters,
which could not be produced by hand, or
without machinery, equal 10 that employ
ed, or we imagine without very peculiar
ink-an ink that will not run.
All these means are within the range of
forgers like these now at work, men with
| UTblbsy mOucy, anu tHS uioPosi''o" w "oe
both for fraud, and no further improve
ment appears practicable. They use CT
pher drafts in some countries, which can
not be read except with the key, but they
are useless against men whose art is not
10 interpret, but to copy exactly. The
only protection they would afford would
be that the forger, not knowing the figures,
must reproduce some bill exactly, as he
would net know. the sign which varied
them But then neither would the ordi-
nary customer. Any signature can be i'm
itated, and no substitute for signature
understood by the discounting world has
been devised. Stamps and seals are as
easily forged rs signatures, or more east.
ly, and SO are water.marks when the re-
ward is large enough for the machinery.
There may be remedy in science, but MS
yet it is quite invisible.