Word: watermark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Since the handwriting is in fully developed form and free of accretions from styles that developed later, a date in the 1440s seems most likely. Second, the parchment and paper used can be traced to the same period, and a unique spectacled head of a bull used as a watermark on the paper shows it most likely was produced at a mill that began operating in Basel, Switzerland, about...
...During the 1919 storm in Corpus Christi, local citizens took refuge in several downtown buildings, one of which was the Nueces County Courthouse. How then could you write of Dr. Robert Simpson that "he swam to the roof of the courthouse" [Aug. 16]? Numerous watermarks have established that the tide crested at 9 ft. above mean sea level. Wave action above the tide level was about 2½ ft., making the highest watermark...