EMBROIDERING ON LEATHER FOR HARNESS AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Baptiste Gottung, of No. 7, Hawley Place,
Kentish Town, in the County of Middlesex, Baker, for the Invention
of "EMBROIDERING ON LEATHER FOR HARNESS AND OTHER PURPOSES."-A
communication.
I, JOHN BAPTISTE GOTTUNG, of Number 7, Hawley Place, Kentish Town, in
the County of Middlesex, Baker, do hereby declare the nature of the said In-
vention for "EMBROIDERING ON LEATHER FOR HARNESS AND OTHER PURPOSES" to be
as follows:-
I employ for this purpose the feather of the peacocks and other birds, the
stem of which is cut longitudinally into breadths of about the sixteenth of an
inch, the pithy or underneath part of the feather being pared away, but as
much length as possible being preserved for the strips. The strips are then
worked or stitched by means of a needle through leather and other similar
substances into various forms and devices. It is especially adapted for harness,

page_text: table mats, and such like articles, being shewn to best advantage in contrast
with glazed black, and as the material in color and durability is almost
indistructible, it is especially adapted for the purposes referred to.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by
the said John Baptiste Gottung in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
24th July 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
BAPTISTE GOTTUNG, of Number 17, Hawley Place, Kentish Town, in the
County of Middlesex, Baker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the First day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said John Baptiste Gottung, Her special licence that I, the said John
Baptiste Gottung, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said John Baptiste Gottung, 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 "EM-
BROIDERING ON LEATHER FOR HARNESS AND OTHER PURPOSES," a communication,
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Baptiste Gottung,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Baptiste Gottung, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, namely:-
I employ for the purpose peacocks and other birds' feathers, the stems of
which are cut longitudinally into breadths of about the sixteenth of an inch,
or more or less, as may be required, the pithy or underneath part of the
feather being pared away, but as much length as possible being preserved for

page_text: the strips. The strips are then worked or stitched by means of a needle or
other machine through leather and other similar substances into various forms
and devices. It is especially adapted for harness, table mats, shoes, slippers,
and such like articles, being shewn to best advantage in contrast with glazed
black, and as the material in color and durability is almost indestructible, it is
especially adapted for the purposes referred to.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Baptiste Gottung, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-four.
JOHN BAPTISTE GOTTUNG. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the above-
named John Baptiste Gottung in the
presence of
RICH PLEWS,
Solicitor,
29, Mark Lane, London.