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1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class VI.: Jane Brewer

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132. BREWER, JANE, 19 Surrey Place, Old Kent Road — Manufacturer.

Endless brass wire cloth for a paper machine.

Straight laid, spirally laid, and wove wire dandy rollers, for producing in paper, made by machine, the "laid" watermark, devices, names, etc.

Laid and wove wire paper moulds, used in making paper by hand.

Wove wire of different degrees of fineness.

[The use of dandy rollers of the kind described is to communicate to paper made by mechanical power the "wire" and other marks generally supposed to indicate the fact of hand-labour having been employed in the manufacture of the papers.— R. E.]

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