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

Digital imaging and
processing are shown to open new methods of paper research. Early Baltic
printed books are the examples in Revealing Watermarks, which also
describes how to enhance security, by creating and archiving a digital
`fingerprint¿. Thus thefts are deterred and stolen items can be uniquely
identified for return.

List of contents

Table of Contents 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¿EstoniäNumber of Pages
V.
Composition and Dating
Downloads
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Ian Christie-Miller was a NATO interpreter and RAF Search and Rescue pilot before becoming a teacher. His London PhD research into French sixteenth-century Kabbalism led to the invention of the Early Book Imaging System and to the development of digital imaging techniques as now used for revealing watermarks. It also lead to the publication of his Traicté de la Cabale (Honoré Champion, Paris, 2007), followed by a series of online and printed works mainly about sixteenth-century religious texts.

Summary

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.

Product details

Authors	Ian Christie-Miller
Publisher	Ingram Publishers Services
Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	17.08.2021
EAN	9781644696248
ISBN	978-1-64469-624-8
No. of pages	90
Illustrations	Tabellen, schwarz-weiss, schwarz-weiss Illustrationen
Subjects	Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous; European History, Imaging systems and technology

Product details

• Authors: Ian Christie-Miller
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.08.2021
• EAN: 9781644696248
• ISBN: 978-1-64469-624-8
• No. of pages: 90
• Illustrations: Tabellen, schwarz-weiss, schwarz-weiss Illustrationen
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous; European History, Imaging systems and technology