Close-up of watermark bird with long legs and long outstretched neck inside a decorative frame.

Full page with date 1884 watermarked at the top, bird in a decorative frame watermarked beneath date, below the words: ALL LINEN in all capital letters. Chain lines are visible in the paper as well.

Winged watermark in Portraits of Shakespeare by J. Parker Norris, pub. Philadelphia, Robert M. Lindsay, 1885.
Reveals this sheet of paper marked made 1884. Is the bird an ibis? Crane? Other?
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#WatermarkWednesday #WingedWednesday #Watermarks #Papermaking #RareBooks

A page of paper with a white line image of a snake wrapped round a staff.

Happy Lunar New Year!

What do you get if you cross #WatermarkWednesday with the year of the snake? A jolly snake watermark, of course!

We found this happy chap on the endpapers of a 'Sacerdotale sive sacerdotum thesaurus' which was printed in 1592.

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Backlit image of a paper watermark of a ring with a gemstone and 6-pointed flower – a near-perfect match for a watermark used in Genoa in 1483. It’s likely that this paper was made in northern Italy around that time.

Page about watermarks from Chapter X of 'The Illustrated Cairo Genizah', including a page from a 15th-century Hebrew medical text and a backlit inset of a watermark.

#WatermarkWednesday delivers once again. This is a 15th-century #Hebrew medical text with a ring watermark known from #Genoa in 1483. Is it in the Cairo Genizah? Yes it is. Did I use a desk lamp from the 1980s instead of a lightsheet to take this picture? I don't know, are you a #library cop? #paper