IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GARDEN TALLIES, OR PLANT LABELS OR MARKERS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Maw, of Benthall Broseley, in the County
of Salop, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF GARDEN TALLIES, OR PLANT LABELS OR MARKERS."
Sealed the 24th November 1868, and dated the 6th June 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Maw at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
6th June 1868.
I, GEORGE MAW, of Benthall, Broseley, in the County of Salop,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GARDEN TALLIES, OR PLANT LABELS
OR MARKERS," to be as follows, that is to say:-
My improvements in the manufacture of the articles above named,
and which are usually formed of wood or metal, consist in making
them of burnt earthenware, either composed of pulverized clay by
Prosser's process or of plastic clay. The blank forms so produced may

page_text: be either glazed or left plain, and when glazed they may be lettered or
inscribed by the ordinary processes of earthenware and porcelain
printing, painting, or writing either upon or beneath the glaze. When
unglazed tallies or markers are use they may be written upon with
paint or black lead, composition, or metallic pencil, either with or
without the surface being previously or subsequently oiled, painted, or
varnished, or coated with other suitable composition.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Maw in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 4th December 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
MAW, of Benthall, Broseley, in the County of Salop, Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-first
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto. me, the said George Maw, Her special license that J, the
said George Maw, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said George Maw, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF GARDEN TALLIES, OR PLANT LABELS OR MARKERS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said George Maw, 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 George Maw, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to

page_text: be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, that is to say:-
My improvements in the manufacture of the articles above named,
and which are usually formed of wood or metal, consist in making
them of burnt earthenware composed of pulverized clay by Prosser's
process. The blank forms so produced may be either glazed or left
plain, and they may be lettered or inscribed by the ordinary processes of
earthenware and porcelain printing, painting, or writing with enamel or
other colors, either upon or beneath the glaze. When unglazed tallies
or markers are used they may be also written upon with paint or black-
lead, composition, metallic pencil, or marking ink, either with or
without the surface being previously or subsequently oiled, painted,
or varnished, or coated with other suitable composition.
I claim the improvements in the manufacture of garden tallies, or
plant labels or markers, as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Maw, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this First day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
GEORGE MAW. (..S.)