Blank Restoration Paper c. 1790 Ephemera Archival, .005 inches thick.

Special offer, up to 25% discount on the single sheet price :

single orders of between 1 and 4 sheets = $20 for each sheet; for single orders of 5 or more sheets = $15 for each sheet. Please contact me if you would like to order 5 or more sheets as I have to manually alter the price at which the sheets are being offered to you.

1 sheet of off-white (cream) color laid paper approx. 9” x 7” from an unused blank book (the book as a whole includes one main watermark: crowned-shield with post horn and ‘GR’ monogram beneath, and occasional countermark ‘C. Taylor’).  

Using a micrometer: 10 sheets were .050 inches thick, and 1 sheet was .005 inches thick

More than 100 sheets available – enquiries welcome.

$20 per sheet, random selection, some leaves with partial watermarks, others with none

Condition: the album showed red-spattered edges, and this is visible to the edges of three sides of each sheet, otherwise the condition is excellent.

Clement Taylor [d.1776] and his son Clement [jnr., died 1804] were both papermakers in Kent, England. By 1796 the younger Taylor’s business was in trouble and he was declared bankrupt in 1797: this probably provides a ‘no-later-than’ date for the present selection of paper.  

A description of other occurrences of the ‘C. Taylor’ watermark:

"A Navigation Cyphering book …. has paper which is watermarked ‘C Taylor’. Clement Taylor [jnr] was a famous British paper maker based in Maidstone, Kent. Paper with the C Taylor watermark has been dated as early as 1787; two of Thomas Jefferson’s letters held by the Library of Congress… dated 1792 and 1793, carry the same watermark… From this evidence it seems reasonable to conclude that this manuscript [Navigation Cyphering Book] was prepared some time during the period 1787-1795”

(Nerida F. Ellerton, and M. A. Clements . Abraham Lincoln’s Cyphering Book and Ten other Extraordinary Cyphering Books. [2014, p.233])