AN IMPROVED METHOD OF COLORING AND ENHANCING THE APPEARANCE OP FURS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Melville Clark, of 53, Ohancery Lanc,
in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention
of "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF COLORING AND ENHANCING THE APPEARANCE
OP FURS."-A communication from abroad by Jules François
Mathias, père, and Justin Georges Mathias, fils, both of Paris,
France.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Melville
Clark at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 29th October 1875.
I, ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLark, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF COLORING AND ENHANCING
THE APPEARANCE OF FURS," to be as follows :—
This Invention relates to the application of gold, silver, and other
metallic powders to all kinds of furs, the powders being applied to the
points or ends only of the hairs by means of a brush or otherwise. The

page_text: preparation employed for the purpose is composed of varnish, and gold,
silver, or other metallic powder. Black furs and others of a dark color
may in this manner have a fawn colored or brownish tinge or lustre
imparted, which will much improve their appearance and value. These
metallic powders when mixed with suitably colored varnishes may be
applied to white and other light colored furs for producing fancy furs or
imitating costly varieties of furs.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letter Patent,
filed by the said Alexander Melville Clark in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 21st April 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALEXANDER
MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lanc, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in
the thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Alexander Melville Clark,
Her special license that I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Alexander Melville Clark, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF COLORING AND
ENHANCING THE APPEARANCE OF FURS," a communication to me from abroad
by Jules François Mathias, père, and Justin Georges Mathias, fils, both
of Paris, France, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Alexander Melville Clark, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
scals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Scal Patent Office within

page_text: six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to the application of gold, silver, and other
metallic powders to all kinds of furs, the powder being applied to the
points or ends only of the hairs by means of a brush or otherwise. The
coloring preparation employed for the purpose is composed of varnish,
and gold, silver, or other metallic powder. Black furs and others of a
dark color may in this manner have a fawn colored or brownish tinge
or lustre imparted which will much improve their appearance and value.
These metallic powders when mixed with suitably colored varnishes may
be applied to white and other light colored furs for producing fancy furs
or imitating costly varieties of furs.
Having described the nature of the Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I declare that what I claim as the Invention to be
protected by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, tho
application of gold, silver, or other metallic powders, mixed with
different colored varnishes to all kinds of furs for improving their
appearance and value, as also for producing fancy furs and imitating
costly varieties of furs, as specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of April, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-