| The "A" paper of English origin - Wiggins,
Teape & Alex Pirie:
http://thepapeterie.com/stoneywood_mill_20_century.aspx
1919 Wiggins Teape converted into a public company named Wiggins Teape & Co (1919) Ltd., and continued to trade under this name for over 40 years. The chairman was Mr P.W Holden, but this shortly passed to Mr Keith Barlow. The commercal paper manufacture of Portals (1919) Ltd. was merged with Wiggins Teape (1919) Ltd., but Portals continued to make banknote paper at Laverstoke and Overton Mills. 1920 Wiggins Teape acquired Devon Valley Mill at Hele, near Exeter. Hele Mill had started the tradition of sending primroses to their customers together with a small poem, and this tradition was continued by Wiggins Teape for over 65 years. Mr. S.N. Cozens-Hardy was the general manager of Stoneywood from 1934 to 1947(?), but had previously been the manager of Devon Valley Mill. 1921 Waterton Mill was built for Pirie's Photographic Paper Ltd. adjacent to Stoneywood Works, and a new papermachine installed to make photographic base paper. The offices, and possibly the new mill, were designed by Harbourne Maclennan of Jenkins & Marr and still retain all the original oak panelling and design features. 1922 Alex Pirie & Sons amalgamated with Wiggins Teape who had already started a new machine for photographic paper at Glory Mill in Buckinghamshire. This amalgamation set the new company on the road to expansion and development of new paper. Mr Hardy was appointed as the new manager of Stoneywood Mill. He was previously the manager of the Withnell Fold Paper Mill In 1922, Wiggins Teape restarted the tradition of Devon Valley Mill to send primroses to all the customers of Wiggins Teape. This tradition was continued until the late 1980's 1930 Colonel Wyndam Raymond Portal became chairman of Wiggins Teape. He was the eldest son of Sir William Portal and a direct descendant of Henri Portal who had come over to Britain with the Huguenots to escape persecution by the French, to start papermaking in Hampshire. In addition to being Chairman of Wiggins Teape, he was also the managing directory of Portals (1919) Ltd., thus holding a unique position as the head of two major papermaking companies.* The Portals mill at Overton, near Basingstoke, still make banknote paper for the Bank of England and the banks of Scotland, remaining a competitor of Arjowiggins. Portals was also the manufacturer of paper for banknotes of Argentina during a long period! From the above excerpts from a history it will not be clear from where exactly the paper comes. From which paper mill located where?!?! |
| .... Pettigiani tries to define the notion
"grené"
"decimos que la trama es grené cuando el granulado es sumamente proljo, los poros de una fila no estan alineados verticalmente con la siguiente sino que esta exactamente en el medio de los dos superios o inferios. Esto forma en la tramaunas diagonales de distinta inclinacion, como lo han analizado algunos estudiosos de esta serie" It winds up to saying that the rhombos should be very cloear and prolonged, the hole in between the threads do not lie right on top of each other but shift aside half length. Thus, a sort of diagonals gets shaped that some students of this series have analyzed. I can not agree more with him as he suggests here having come to know about the strange blue diagonal lines I have displayed here several times! We have TWO parallel watermarks with a symmetrical paper mesh in the PyR I period, the first with a 30/20 density:
What seems to be not so accurate is the diameter of the Sun! How to measure it exactly??? There can be made some minor distinctions as to the way the "trama" is clear or not so clear and hence rather "closed" [cerrada]. Pettigiani denotes this by using " A' " and Tony Rubiera has his 1E3a which according to him only got used since 1939 .... No doubt, this will keep the students busy for some time :) |
