NEW-INVENTED INSTRUMENT TO STAMP OR MARK WITH, WHICH MAY BE COMPOSED OF VARIOUS COLOURS, SO AS NOT TO BE COUNTERFEITED OR FORGED, FOR THE BETTER SECURING THE PROPERTY OF HIS MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS FROM IMPOSITION
Year: 1786

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, SOLOMON
HENRY, of Stockweell Green, in the County of Surrey, Gentleman, sends
greeting.
WHEREAS the King's most Excellent Majesty, by His Letters Patent
under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the
Ninth day of December, in the twenty-seventh year of His reign, gave and
granted unto the said Solomon Henry, his executors, administrators, and
assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that he,
the said Solomon Henry, his executors, administrators, and assigns, by himself
and themselves, or by his or their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or
such other person or persons as he, the said Solomon Henry, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term of years therein and herein-after expressed, should and law-
fully might make, use, exercise, and vend his "NEW-INVENTED INSTRUMENT TO
STAMP OR MARK WITH, WHICH MAY BE COMPOSED OF VARIOUS COLOURS, SO AS NOT TO
BE COUNTERFEITED OR FORGED, FOR THE BETTER SECURING THE PROPERTY OF HIS
MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS FROM IMPOSITION," within that part of Great Britain called
England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such
manner as to him, the said Solomon Henry, his executors, administrators, and
assigns, or any of them, should in their discretion seem meet, and that he, the

page_text: said Solomon Henry, his executors, administrators, and assigns, should and
lawfully might have and enjoy the full profit, benefit, commodity, and advan-
tage from time to time coming, growing, and arising by reason of the said new
Invention, for and during and unto the full end and term of years therein and
herein after mentioned, to have and to hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence,
powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before mentioned to be granted unto
the said Solomon Henry, his executors, administrators, and assigns, of the sole
use, exercise, and vending his New-invented Instrument to Mark with, which
may be composed of various Colours, so as not to be Counterfeited or Forged,
for the better Securing the Property of His Majesty's Subjects from Imposition,
for and during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date
of the said Letters Patent next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be
compleat and ended, according to the Statute in that case made and provided;
His Majesty, in such Letters Patent, thereby strictly commanding all and every
person or persons, bodies politic and corporate, and all other His Majestie's
subjects whatsoever, of what estate, quality, degree, name, or condition soever,
they being within that part of His Majesty's said Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
that neither they, nor any of them, at any time during the continuance of the
said term of fourteen years thereby granted, either directly or indirectly, do
make, use, or put in practise, the said Invention, or any part of the same so
attained unto by the said Solomon Henry, his executors, administrators, or
assigns as aforesaid, nor in anywise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same,
nor make or cause to be made any addition thereto or substraction from the
same, whereby to pretend himself or themselves the inventor or inventors,
devisor or devisors thereof, without the licence, consent, or agreement of the
said Solomon Henry, his executors, administrators, or assigns, in writing under
his or their hands and seals first duly had and obtained in that behalf, upon
such pains or penalties as can or may be justly inflicted on such offender or
offenders for their contempt of His Majesty's said Royal command, and further
to be answerable to the said Solomon Henry, his executors, administrators, and
assigns according to law, for his or their damages occasioned thereby; in which
said Letters Patent is contained a provisoe that if the said Solomon Henry, his
executors, administrators, and assigns, or any other person or persons which
shall or may at any time hereafter during the continuance of the said grant
have or claim any right, title, or interest, in law or in equity, of, in, or to the
powers, priviledges, and authority of the sole use and benefit of the said Inven-
tion, should make any transfer or assignment, or any pretended transfer or
assignment, of the said liberty or privilege, or any share or shares of the

page_text: benefits or profits thereof, to or for any number of persons exceeding the
number of five, and also that if the said Solomon Henry should not describe
or ascertain the nature of his said Invention or instrument to stamp or mark
with, which may be composed of various colours as not to be counterfeited or
forged, for the better securing the subjects from imposition, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under his
hand and seal and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately after the
date of the said Royal Letters Patent, that then the said Royal Letters
Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should
utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything therein contained to the
contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Solomon Henry, in pursuance of and
in compliance with the last-mentioned proviso in the said recited Royal
Letters Patent contained, do by this present Instrument declare that the
nature of my said Invention of an Instrument to Stamp or Mark with, which
may be comprised of various Colours, so as not to be Counterfeited or Forged,
for the better securing His Majesty's Subjects from Imposition, and the
manner in which the same is to be used or performed, is described and ascer-
tained in the Plan, Sections, and Drawings hereunto annexed, and which are
described, explained, and referred unto in the letters, figures, and manner
following (that is to say) :-
Figure 1 represents one of my patent instruments or stamps, composed of
two parts, marked letters A and B, viz:-A is a part thereof, having five
projections or ends, which helps to form the impression or design at
(a, a, a, a, a), and which are made to enter into the other part (b, b, b, b, b); B
is the other part of the said stamp (Figure 1), having holes (b,b,b,b,b) to receive.
the same, and which, having a device and one or more colour or colours put
thereon, a letters (c, c, c, c, c) form a compleat device of one, two, or more
colour or colours. Figure 2 represents a stamp composed of five different parts
at letter (C), which said several parts are marked letters (d, d, d, d, d), on which
said part or parts whereof may have one or more colour or colours, and on which
being put a design, and closed together by the collar (D), form a compleat
device of one, or five, or more colour or colours. Figure 3 represents a stamp
composed of four parts following:-(E) is a projection with part of the design
thereon, and, having one or more colour or colours, forms part of the device at
letter (e). F is another part thereof, and which is put over letter E, e, and has
a further part of the design, and one or more colour or colours at letters
(ffffff). G is another part thereof, and goes over E and F, having

page_text: another part of the design, and one or more colour or colours at letters
(9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9). H is another part thereof, and goes over the three former
parts E, F, and G, having another part of the design, and one or more colour or
colours at (h,h,h,h), which said four parts, being closed and fixed together, form
a compleat design or device of one or four or more colour or colours. Figure 4
is a stamp composed of five separate parts following:-I has six projections,
and contains part of the device, and one or more colour or colours at letters
(i, i, i, i, i, i). K has nine projections, and contains a further part of the device,
and one or more colour or colours at letters (k, k, k, k, k, k, k, k, k), and which goes
over letter I. L has nine projections, and contains another part of the device,
and one or more colour or colours at letters (1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1), which goes over
the two former parts I and K. M has six projections, and contains a further
part of the said device, and one or more different colour or colours at letters
(m, m, m, m, m, m), and which goes over the three former parts I, K, L. N
has only three projections at letters (n, n, n), and has another part of the said
device with one or more colour or colours, and goes over the four former parts
I, K, L, and M, and which together form the device or impression designed of
one, five, or more colour or colours. Figure 5 is a stamp or block composed
of the three separate parts following:-(0) has eleven projections, having
thereon part of the impression to be formed, and one or more colour or colours
at letters (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0). P is a hollow part or piece having a
further part of the impression to be form, and one or more colour or colours
thereon at (p, p), and which goes over the former part O. Q is another hollow
part thereof, having a further part of the said impression, and may be composed
of one or more colour or colours at letter (9), and which goes on the two
former parts P and O, and which together form a compleat impression, device,
or devices of one or three or more colour or colours. Figure 6 is a stamp,
plate, or block, composed of five different parts at letters (r, r, r, r, r), on each
of which parts having different parts of the device, and one or more colour
or colours put thereon, and which, being closed together and fixed in the
frame (S), form a device, according to fancy, of one or five or more colour or
colours. Figure 7 is part of a stamp of three parts, which, by means of a
spring, opens and shuts at pleasure, and on the ends of which are fixed the
parts U, V, W, which composes the device intended, having one or more
colour or colours at letters (a, a, a). (b) is the collar which slides up, and
closes or fastens them together. (c) is the spring which extends or opens it.
(d) is a pin which enters the hole (e) when closed, to keep it steady,
U, V, and W, being fixed on the said letters (a, a, a), as aforesaid, and coloured
according to fancy, forms the same device of one, three, or more colour or

page_text: colours; but the said three parts may be increased to any greater or umber
of parts. Figure 8. I, a stamp, with letters and figures, to be changed at
pleasure, and are as private marks for the sums to be drawn for, as well as
the number of notes to be issued, which, having duplicates kept by the owner,
will detect any erasement or counterfeit thereof. Figure 9 is an instrument
with pins or points, which may be made of any shape for the purpose of
peircing through the back side of the impression, to prevent the same from
being erased or counterfeited; the piercing must be made before the impression,
that the roughness which the piercing occasions may be flattened and smoothed
by the stamp; whereas, should a counterfeit thereof be attempted, the colour
would run through the holes if put on after the holes are made; and if the
piercing is made after the impression, the same will spoil the device or design,
and cause a roughness thereon easily to be discovered. It is to be observed
that the engraving or design must be made compleat on the stamp end of each
instrument or stamp aforesaid, whilst the several parts thereof are respectively
fixed together. The materials of the above stamps and parts thereof may be
cast, formed, or made of gold, silver, copper, brass, iron, steel, tin, pewter, lead,
or any other mettals, or formed of wood, ivory, horn, bone, stone, porcelain,
wax, clay, leather, papa mache, or any composition or substance suffi-
cient hard, and the design or device thereon may be engraved, cut, peirced,
cast, carved, struck, stamped, or etched. And the number of parts of the said
stamp above set forth are not confined thereto, but may be increased or
decreased according to your design. And in order to cause the stamp to make
the impression, devise, or design, the same may be pressed, rolled, hammered,
or formed by hand, or anything sufficiently weighty or strong to impress it
on the thing intended to be stampt, and which impression may be made on
paper, parchment, leather, silks, stuffs, or any other commodity capable of
taking the same. And the colour or colours to be put on the said instrument
or stamp may be either water colour, stains, varnish, or oil colour, or any
other colouring; but I find that the oil colour is the best, by reason that the
impression made therewith is most durable, and cannot be erased.
In witness whereof, I, the said Solomon Henry, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Fourth day of January, in the twenty-seventh
year of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God
of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith,
and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
and eighty-seven.

page_text: BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fourth day of January, One thousand
seven hundred and eighty-seven, the said Solomon Henry came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form last
above mentioned. And also that the Specification aforesaid was duly stampt
according to the tenor of the Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Fourth day of January, in the year last above written.