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Title: Autograph collecting: a practical manual for amateurs and historical students. Containing ample information on the selection and arrangement of autographs, the detection of forged specimens, &c., &c. To which are added numerous facsimiles for study and reference, and an extensive valuation table of autographs worth collecting.
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Scott, Henry T. (Henry Thomas)
Subjects: Autographs Autographs Autographs Autographs
Publisher: London : L.U. Gill
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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ument inquestion could be compared with it, all doubt would be re-moved by attention to the feel of the papers, watermarks, etc.If the ink be recent, it would instantly be affected by alittle hot water, whereas old writing is difficult to affect, andif applied to the tongue, the doctored ink would havea distinctly peculiar taste, which in old ink could not be 6 AUTOGRAPH COLLECTING. perceived. A photograph, if very slightly touched with the pointof a sable pencil moistened with equal proportions of muriaticacid and water, would be unaffected, while writing would growfaint or disappear ; of course, the smallest speck would sufficefor the experiment. If the photograph copy be that of aletter of the present day—e #., one of Charles Dickens—theembossed letters of his address, Gads Hill, are alwaysblack, and though the appearance of relief of the letters isperfect, yet, of course, .they are not raised but quite smooth,and that alone, in such a case, would be sufficient evidence. PART I
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CHAPTER I. Collectors, Etc. — Albums. N the immense benefit conferred on mankind by theinvention of letters, or their utility as a means ofcommunication, or the antiquity of epistolary corres-pondence, it is unnecessary to dilate. We shalltherefore limit our subject to the best methods ofacquiring and preserving the letters of those illustriousmen and women whd have left their mark upon the world,and to such letters and writings as are useful to the his-torian. When we know that a few written lines whichmight have been preserved from distant ages would havelighted up some of the most obscure and interesting periodsof our history, who will not regret the wholesale destructionwhich has overwhelmed the bulk of our national correspondenceduring the past four centuries, and which even now continues ?Who would not make an effort to control the destructive spiritwhich consigns all the letters and papers of a person deceasedto the fire, and to prevail against that weak timidity sotremblinglautographcollect00scot

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