IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING PAPIER MÂCHÉ, JAPANNED IRON, CHINA, AND OTHER HARD OR BRIGHT SURFACES, WITH GOLD
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Breese, of the firm of Breese and
Hayward, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Japan-
ners, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING PAPIER
MÂCHÉ, JAPANNED IRON, CHINA, AND OTHER HARD OR BRIGHT SURFACES,
WITH GOLD."
Sealed the 26th July 1853, and dated the 10th February 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Breese at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 10th February 1853.
I, CHARLES BREESE, of the firm of Breese and Hayward, of
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Japanners, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
ORNAMENTING PAPIER MACHE, JAPANNED IRON, CHINA, AND OTHER HARD OR
BRIGHT SURFACES, WITH GOLD," to be as follows: -

page_text: After the surface is polished, I lay on gold leaf. I take a pattern
which has been produced from an engraved. plate or stone, or other
source, and transfer it on to the surface. of the gold, using a compo-
sition to protect and fix: such portions of the gold as are to be
retained on the surface.. I allow the pattern to set, and rub off or
otherwise remove the superfluous gold leaf. I then wash off the
composition by means of turpentine or other suitable spirit, when
the pattern will appear in bright burnished gold.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, filed by the said Charles Breese in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 10th August 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
CHARLES BREESE, of the firm of Breese and Hayward, of Birming-
ham, in the County of Warwick, Japanners, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three,
in the sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Charles Breese, Her
special licence that I, the said Charles Breese, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles Breese,
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 time therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
üse, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING PAPIER MÂCHÉ, JAPANNED
IRON, CHINA, AND OTHER HARD OR BRIGHT SURFACES, WITH GOLD," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles Breese, 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

page_text: 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. Charles Breese, do hereby
declare the.nature of-my. said- Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by.the following statement thereof (that is to say):
After the surface to be ornamented has been polished, I wash it
over with a solution of isinglass and water, and while wet I lay on
gold leaf in the usual way, and allow it to dry. I then take an im-
pression on sized tissue paper from an engraved plate or stone, or
other source, with a composition or color of the kind herein-after
mentioned, and transfer the pattern produced in such composition
or color on the sized tissue paper to the surface of the gold, and
damp the paper, when it may be drawn off, leaving the pattern on
the gold. When sufficiently dry, I remove the superfluous gold
leaf by rubbing with a little cotton wool made damp with water; or
I sometimes pour on dilute nitromuriatic acid, which will bite away
the gold not covered by the pattern. I then wash off the composi-
tion with turpentine, or other suitable spirit, when the pattern will
appear in bright burnished gold.
I employ a color or composition capable of resisting acid or
water, as the case may be, according to whichever of these may
afterwards be used for removing the superfluous gold leaf, as herein-
before mentioned. The following I find to answer well, but I do
not confine myself to this precise composition:-I boil asphaltum
varnish until it assumes the consistence of putty, and thin down
with a little linseed oil and gold size to the proper consistence for
printing. The stone or other surface should be engraved of such
depth as to hold a body of color or composition sufficient to protect
and fix such portions of the gold as are to be retained on the
surface.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same may be best performed, I declare that I
claim, the ornamenting of papier mâché, japanned iron, china, and

page_text: other hard or bright surfaces with gold, by the means and in the
other manner herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Breese, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Sixth day of August, One thou-
sand eight hundred and fifty-three.
CHARLES BREESE. (L.S.)