A CURIOUS AND NEW METHOD OF MAKING WITH PAPER ORNAMENTS FOR THE INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF BUILDINGS AND SHIPS, AND FOR ALL SORTS OF FURNITURE, RESEMBLING WOOD CARVING, THOUGH MORE BEAUTIFULL, AND DURABLE
Year: 1773

page_text: PICKERING'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
PICKERING, of the Parish of Saint James, Clerkenwell, in the County of
Middlesex, Toymaker, send greeting.
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WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
the Twentieth day of December, in the fourteenth year of His reign, give
and grant unto me, the said John Pickering, His especial licence that I,
the said John Pickering, during the term of years therein expressed; should
and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and Town
of. Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A CURIOUS AND NEW METHOD OF
MAKING WITH PAPER ORNAMENTS FOR THE INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF BUILDINGS AND
SHIPS, AND FOR ALL SORTS OF FURNITURE, RESEMBLING WOOD CARVING, THOUGH
MORE BEAUTIFULL, AND DURABLE," in which said Letters Patent there is con-
tained a proviso obliging me, the said John Pickering, under my hand and
seal, to cause a peculiar description of the nature of my' said Invention,
and, how the same is to be perforined, to be inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within four calendar months after the date of the
said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto
had) may more fully and at large appear. A
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-NOW KNOW YE-that-in compliance with the said provisoe, I, the said
John Pickering, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a Curious and
New Method of making with Paper Ornaments for the Inside and Outside of
Building and Ships, and for all Sorts of Furniture, resembling Wood Carving,
tho' more Beautifull and Durable, is described in the manner following (that
is to say):

page_text: The paper is a fine paper made into pasteboard, after which it is prepared
with boiling hot size, made with white leather or parchment; after which there
is an iron press, with a treble screw, which works with a large fly with a
weight of lead at each end, agreeable to the largeness of the ornaments
required; underneath which there is fixed a steel or cast mettal dye, which is
graved with such figure or ornament as is required, fixed between four screws,
and in the moving slide of the press there is a steel bottom which is under cutt,
so that by filling the graved part of the dye with lead or mixed metal, the
rough part of the bottom of the press which takes it up makes a convex to the
graved concave between which the pasteboard is put, and with the movement
of the press it raises a curious imbossment or figure, with so fine a surface as
can gild and burnish thereon, which no wood or other carving can do in
burnished gold without whiteing and repairing. Likewise there is another
machine, which movement works between two sliding barrs made of iron,
a hammer with a rough bottom, in the same manner as described in the
press, which works perpendicular, and executes some different ornaments in
a quicker manner than the expedition of the press will do, tho' the press
raises a more high figure without breaking the surface than the last-described
machine or stamp hammer will do.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Pickering, have hereunto sett my
hand and seal, this Ninth day of April, One thousand seven hundred