Revealing Watermarks

How to Enhance the Security of Hand-Made Paper Items and Reveal Hidden Data

Ian Christie-Miller (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

90 Seiten

2021
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
978-1-64469-624-8 (ISBN)

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In presenting case study of one sixteenth century watermark - a crown from the arms of Danzig – this book illustrates how cultural influences spread and have endured across the centuries, in this case from Sweden to Russia.

Watermarks reflect the very stuff of the origin, date, distribution, composition, history and culture of paper-based items. Digital imaging of watermarks releases the research potential as widely as the internet itself. One example is the digital "fingerprinting" of paper in order to enhance the security of items, such as valuable and vulnerable maps. Revealing Watermarks, by means of the case study of one sixteenth century watermark—a crown from the arms of Danzig—illustrates how cultural influences spread and have endured across the centuries, in this case from Sweden to Russia.

Ian Christie-Miller is a former RAF pilot and teacher. During his London PhD he devised the Early Book Imaging System for watermark research and security enhancement. Publications include Traicté de la Cabale, (2007), 72 In His Name (Academic Studies Press, 2019), and articles on the Electronic British Library Journal.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
I.
PaperPrint—Security
Method
The Lindley Library and Other Examples of PaperPrint in Use
II.
Paper, Pages, and Finding Watermarks
How to Reveal Watermarks
Imaging Procedure
Image Processing and Archiving
III.
Case Study—Lithuania to Russia and Sweden—Cultural—the Danzig Connection
IV.
Case Study—Estonia—Number of Pages
V.
Composition and Dating
Downloads
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.07.2021
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Brighton
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Antiquitäten
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Technik
ISBN-10	1-64469-624-X / 164469624X
ISBN-13	978-1-64469-624-8 / 9781644696248
Zustand	Neuware