Corner clove paper

As Ecknelkenpapier paper is referred to, the corners of which a watermark having only as jewelry. This type of paper has a long tradition. Since flowers, especially carnations , were used as symbols in the four corners of the sheet, the designation corner carnation paper was obvious. A stalked carnation with the occasional two leaves on a stem protruded from each corner into the arch. This handmade paper had a high manufacturing cost, and so the amount of production was limited. The paper mill in Kröllwitz near Halle under Georg Christoph and Philipp Sebastian Ludwig Keferstein is documented as a producer from around 1760 to 1804. Independently, the paper can be adorned with other watermarks.

literature

Karl Theodor Weiss , Wisso Weiss: Handbook of watermarking. VEB Fachbuchverlag, Leipzig 1962, pp. 90, 104.
Journal of art. Volume 4, E. Seemann, Leipzig 1950; P. 296.

Individual evidence

↑ Stephanie Jette Petschat: Transcription and review of a manuscript on hippotomy and splitting technology according to Friedrich Bock (1806) . Hannover 2002, p. 23. (Dissertation University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover) (PDF; 4.15 – MB).

[1] Stephanie Jette Petschat: Transcription and review of a manuscript on hippotomy and splitting technology according to Friedrich Bock (1806) . Hannover 2002, p. 23. (Dissertation University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover) (PDF; 4.15 – MB).