Ream wrapper • 18th century Dutch

Ream wrap­per for ‘fine’ (fyn = fijn) grade paper made by Luber­tus van Ger­revink. ❧ W.A. Churchill, Water­marks in paper in Hol­land, Eng­land, France, etc. in the XVII and XVIII cen­turies, (1935), p. 36 describes this as “Gar­den of Hol­land, lion alone” and dates his copy at 1749. This ream wrap­per is one of more than 536 trade labels, chiefly for the linen thread trade, pasted into three albums with title Hout­sne­den door Izaak van der Vinne [Wood­cuts by Isaac van der Vinne (1665–1740)]. Call num­ber: (Ex) NC1002.L3 V56f [This wrap­per: vol­ume 3, leaf 8.]

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