The Story of Paper

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Amalgamated Tobacco cigarette card from 1961. Number 5 in a series of 25 'Communications' was Papyrus

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The same image and information had been used by Sketchley Cleaners in 1960

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BBC Sound Effects Centre - EC 195P

7" Vinyl record
33 ⅓ RPM

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Roots of Knowledge Project

Roots of Knowledge is a permanent stained glass display completed in 2016 at Utah Valley University (UVU) in Orem, Utah, United States. This 200 ft long mural chronicling human innovation throughout time and cultures was a herculean effort that the UK's Guardian Newspaper referred to as, "one of the most spectacular stained glass windows made in the past century."

Part of one panel shows a papyrus maker

The text for this panel is as follows:

As early as 3000 BC, the Egyptians used the papyrus plant (Cyperus papyrus) that grew along the Nile River to develop a writing surface also called papyrus. The plant's stalk was collected for its fibrous, central pith, which was cut into long, thin strips. These strips were arranged side-by-side and then covered by another layer of strips perpendicular to the first. They were held together by the sap of the plant, which served as a natural adhesive. The material was then beaten and dried under pressure to form a thin, smooth sheet. Papyrus was used in Egypt and other places, such as Greece and Rome, until about the 8th and 9th centuries AD. The English word "paper" comes from "papyrus."

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Gartmann Schokolade card from early 1900s

Apologies for image quality

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Hollander Beaters - helping papermakers since the 1600's.  This photo was taken at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. They have a paper program there. The photo itself is a group of students from the 1940s who called themselves 'the beater rats'. They had parties in the pilot plant, including one time where they filled the beater with water and put a couple of ducks in it!

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About 1496 English printer Wynkyn de Worde, successor to William Caxton, printed at Westminister an edition of the encyclopedic work by Bartholomaeus Anglicus (De Proprietatibus Rerum) in the English translation by John Trevisa, illustrated with woodcuts mostly derived from the numerous earlier editions. This work was the first book printed in England on paper made at the first English paper mill, operated by John Tate from around 1495.

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The first known examples of paper currency as we would understand it today were created in China during the Song Dynasty (AD 960–1279). Promissory notes known as "Jiaozi" were printed by a group of merchants in Sichuan during the reign of Emperor Zhenzong (AD 997–1022). These notes were exchangeable for coin-based money and could be exchanged between individuals. 



We now use polymer notes in the U.K.

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Following on from post number 25 on page 2...........more notgeld coins.
KRAUSE & BAUMANN A.-G.

5 Pfennig




10 Pfennig

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To go with post 27 on page 2 - 50 Pfennig coin

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Souvenir note from the Museum of Papermaking in Duszniki-Zdrój                  (Poland)





Lettering on face of note:
MUZEUM PAPIERNICTWA W DUSZNIKACH-ZDROJU
EURO SOUVENIR 1562

Translation:
MUSEUM OF PAPERMAKING IN DUSZNIKI-ZDRÓJ

Reverse
Representation of six European monuments:
- Berlin's Brandenburg Gate.
- Lisbon's Belém Tower.
- Paris's Eiffel Tower.
- Rome's Colosseum.
- Barcelona's Sagrada Familia.
- Brussels' Manneken Pis.
Portrait of Mona Lisa on the right.

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The next few posts are all reposts due to the 'outage' suffered today so you may have seen them before if you are a regular visitor to this thread. This may take some time as a month's worth of posts were lost.

Northwest Paper Co. 50th Anniversary 1948




Also issued without cut-outs

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Advertising stamp for the Leipzig Paper and Stationery Trade Exhibition 1898

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PRINTING AND STATIONERY Token Papeteries de St Cybard des Beauvais and St Michel 1844           

Jean-Edmond Laroche-Joubert was a French industrialist who developed his family paper manufacturing company into a major industrial enterprise. He was innovative in introducing profit sharing and encouraging his employees to acquire shares in the business.



Obverse: ST CYBARD DES BEAUVAIS AND ST MICHEL STATIONERS / LES OUVRIERS / À / LACROIX FRÈRES / AND GAURY.

Reverse: EXHIBITION OF INDUSTRY PRODUCTS AT THE CENTER IN SIX LINES JULY 29, 1844/ MEDALS/ GOLD 1839 - 1844/ SILVER/ 1835

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Issued in 2005 to celebrate 250 Years of the Tumba Bruk Papermaking and Printing Works     100 Kroner      (Sweden)




In lower part of the banknote are two images from the French encyclopedia by Denis Diderot (Denis Diderot's French encyclopaedia), 1751-1780. They show the process of producing paper. These images were taken from the sixth volume of the encyclopedia, from the section "Papetterie" (Stationery and Writing Goods)

Minitext that can be read with the aid of a magnifying glass. The text, based on a decision by the Riksbank council in 1755, announces that the bank intends to found a paper mill in Tumba: "Den 14 juni 1755 beslutade fullmäktige att hos Kungl. Maj:t söka tillstånd att vid Tumba anlägga ett pappersbruk för bankens räkning, där till erhållande af nya och till efterapande svårare formulärer för de nu brukliga bankotransportsedlarna skulle tillverkas ett eget, med vissa ifrån allt annat papper särskilde, och till kompositionen ej lätteligen utrönta kännetecken utmärkt papper, med vilkets förfärdigande skall fordras en noga förvarad hemlighet."

In English: "On the 14th June 1755, the Riksbank Council decided to apply for permission from His Royal Majesty for the Riksbank to found a paper mill at Tumba where the manufacture of new and more difficult to counterfeit forms for the now common bank transport bills would be carried out on the bank's own, special paper with a composition that could not easily be copied and would remain a closely guarded secret."

That is the last of the 'lost posts'.