---
title: "Charles-Moïse Briquet"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Charles-Moïse Briquet"
aliases: ["C.M. Briquet"]
first_seen: "2026-08-01T00:00:00.000Z"
connects_to: ["Les Filigranes (1907 watermark catalog)","watermark dating (Fabriano 1282 dispute)","Bologna archive (\"Podestà\" entries, Briquet no. 5410)","Zonghi collections / Fondazione Fedrigoni Fabriano"]
tags: ["print-history","paper-making","watermarks","briquet","source-verification"]
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
---


Swiss archivist and author of *Les Filigranes: Dictionnaire historique des marques de papier dès leur apparition vers 1282 jusqu'en 1600* (1907), assembled over roughly thirty years of archival travel and still the standard repertory of the field — the "Briquet number" remains the working reference system for a watermark's identity. He matters to this vault as the foundational figure any specific date for the watermark's origin ultimately traces back to: his own titlepage hedges "1282" with *vers* ("around"), and his own marginal annotation for entry no. 5410 — the earliest-dated watermark in his repertory, and the likely ultimate source of the popular "1282" figure — carries a question mark, with the entry itself sourced to Bologna rather than confirmed as Fabriano.

## References

- [[claim-briquet-1907-catalog-title-hedges-fabriano-date-as-vers-1282]] — his own titlepage qualifier
- [[claim-briquet-entry-5410-earliest-watermark-question-mark-and-bologna-provenance]] — his own marginal uncertainty and the Bologna/Fabriano mismatch
- [[claim-watermarks-originated-as-papermakers-mark-in-fabriano-1282]] — the claim his catalog is the ultimate source of