The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-02-25
COUNTERFEIT MONEY.
c. III. wsxham's Lecture nc Goldey's-
Science of Detection.


The following 10 a synopsis Of the
lecture delivered by Professor waxham
ut Goldey's Institute last evening.
/. Study. on genuine bills, the ex-
preston of the countenance. Take
several bills all alike. You can get as
familiar with those as you are with
the faces of your best friends.
To detect raised bill you can toll
the bill is zone" or two or
live" etc, by looking only at the
because the ones have
either George Washington, Martha
Washington or Henry M. Stanton.
Ths "twos" have either Hancock,
Jefferson, Windrim or McPhersoD.
In this way you will instantly detect
n ten" raised from tone," or a
"twenty" raised from TWO" or q
fifty" from live" etc.
III. Look through maRnifying
glass at the geometric endless
lines around the figures. They
are very fine and are made with extra
ordinary skill. They afford 5000
chances to detect counterfeit. Look
at the lines, so fine that every other
one is invisible without powerful
glass.
One of the machines used cost $3.50.
600 and will make lines 10 to so times
tinerthan hair.
When lines arc made as fine 40 the
one.two. hundredth part Of theone.tifti-
eth part OF hair they cannot be cOun-
terfaited.
The governments engraving plant
cost over q million dollars. 1t con
tains some machines and many dice
that cannot be duplicated. For the
use Of the most valuable machine the
greatest nations are dependent on our
government.
III. Look at the stipple. In the
Tighter shading, the dots are more
than ten times finer. The %, 600 dots
are alike only OH one and the same do
nomination. In stippling the alter.
nate lines are invisible.
| ~. Look at tho lights and shades
of landscapes and vignettes. the dra
perry and the quality of the engraving
fhs genuine is of the best quality
1t is done by twenty-five different en-
aravrrs in twenty five rooms, each one
of whom took eight years to learn his
part and can do it only. This means
zoo years OF skilled instruction to dc
the engraving besides the costly and
Intricate machines whose work cannot
te Initiated. When the combination
of machine Is changed they do moi
even pretend to set it the same way
lagain. When the dies are worn oui
the Government cannot duplicate
them nor gauge It's machines twice
alike. The work of the matching
needle machine cannot be duplicated
old dies are destroyed and no bill o.
THAT denomination is ever again is
sued. The U. S. Government canno
duplicate its own work.
The work on the dies is so intricat.
and skillful that no two can be mad,
Iulilie.
4 V. Look at the quality and color.
lof the ink. The black ink Is made 0
charcoal which never decays and is
myriad of little diamonds stamped In
TO two. tifths OF the thickness of til
paper, in lines visible and invisible b,
'IraZor steel dies and $500 to $500 ton
pressure. II never fades. Every do
lon tho genuine bill In the carolina
links is alive. Every ono OH the coun
iterfeit Is dead. Linsced oil is used il
the ink. Put your trust in the epgra
wings. their artistic effect, symmetr.
, and living coiors.
} 10 not mind tho paper. The coun
, lterfeiLer also use linen paper. gov
10. nment bill Is two pieces of pape
pressed and stuck together with post
lage. stamp mucilage. You can pu
lone between two pieces of pasteboar,
and steam it apart in less than fiy
minutes.