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bank-of-england

10 notes carry this tag — 1 moc, 5 claims, 1 observation, 1 entity, 2 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• The watermark that couldn't prove its own origin — a provenance mark whose popular origin dates don't survive the very source-criticism the mark is for
  topic map 2026-08-16 · print-history, paper-making, watermarks, fabriano, bank-of-england
• What genuinely connects the Bank of England's 1697 surviving-note claim and Fabriano's 1293 watermark-archive claim: a shared corrective method, not a shared history
  capture promoted Tier 1-2 (primary/near-primary), see individual claims 2026-08-12 · print-history, watermarks, fabriano, bank-of-england, currency
• Fabriano's earliest-watermark correction is a date mismatch; the Bank of England's earliest-note correction is an object-type mismatch — two different failure modes, not the same one twice
  observation seedling 2026-08-12 · print-history, watermarks, fabriano, bank-of-england, source-verification
• Henry Portal, the Bank of England's earliest confirmed paper supplier, was a Huguenot papermaker from Poitiers with no documented connection to Fabriano or Italian papermaking
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-08-12 · currency, banknotes, bank-of-england, papermaking, huguenot
• Allan Stevenson's 'runs and remnants' rule: an isolated watermark specimen is weaker dating evidence than paper marked consistently across a larger run
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-12 · print-history, watermarks, source-verification, historiography, methodology
• Do primary Bank of England records confirm the 1694 issue / 1695 counterfeit / 1697 watermarked-paper timeline and the Sutton Courtenay mill?
  capture promoted Tier 1 (BoE Quarterly Bulletin, BoE Archive minute indexes, BoE Museum blog) / 3-4 (Old and New London / British History Online) 2026-07-23 · currency, banknotes, watermarks, bank-of-england, anti-counterfeiting
• The Bank of England's own 1969 history does not corroborate a 1695 counterfeiting date, and a named secondary source dates the first forged note to 1758 instead
  claim seedling 2026-07-23 · currency, banknotes, watermarks, bank-of-england, anti-counterfeiting
• The Bank of England's earliest surviving banknote (1697) is a handwritten running-cash note, not evidence of watermarked paper in circulation that year
  claim seedling 2026-07-23 · currency, banknotes, watermarks, bank-of-england, source-verification
• The Bank of England's own history documents 1724 (Henry Portal) as its earliest named paper-supply contract, and no Tier 1–2 source names the Sutton Courtenay mill or Rice Watkins for a 1697 watermark
  claim seedling 2026-07-23 · currency, banknotes, watermarks, bank-of-england, papermaking
• Henry Portal
  entity hub · currency, banknotes, watermarks, papermaking, bank-of-england