64 Prevention oJForgenj. 



ration. As some of the facts connected with this transactioH 

 are of a singular nature, we shall lay before our readers certifi- 

 cates tending to prove the originality and merit of Mr. Tilloch's 

 invention, which we intend to follow no in some of our future 

 Numbers, with further particulars. In the mean time the public 

 will not be a little surprised to find that the Bank, notwithstand- 

 ing that it had means oifered so many years ago for lessening, if 

 not preventing, the forging of their Notes, should have so long 

 continued their old system, at such an expense for prosecutions, 

 and attended with the death of so many victims. 



Certificate, No. I. 



London, 5th April 1797- 

 Mr. Alexander Tilloch, of Carey-street, London, having 

 submitted to our inspection a Specimen of an Art invented by 

 him, for the purpose of producing Checks to prevent the Forgery 

 of Bank Notes, Bills of Excliange, Drafts, &;c. &c. Sec, we have 

 examined the same with care and attention, and we declare, 

 each of us for ourselves, that we could not make a copy of it, 

 nor do we believe that it can be copied by any of the known arts 

 of Engraving. It therefore appears to us to be highly deserving 

 of the notice of the Bank of England and private Bankers, as an 

 Art of great merit and ingenuity, calculated, not merely to de- 

 tect, but to PREVENT the possibility of forging Bank and other 

 circulating Bills,, 



Fran'CIs Bartolozzf, R.A. Engraver to His Majesty, 

 &c. &c. 



James Heath, Engraver to His Majesty and to the 

 « Prince of Wales. 



James Fittler, Engraver to His Majesty. 



J. Landseer, Engraver to His Majesty. 



J. R. Smith, Engraver to the Prince of Wales. 



Francis Haward, Engraver to the Prince of Wales. 



James Basire, Engraver to the Royal Society and to 

 the Society of Antiquarians. 



William Sharp. 



William Byrne. 



Thomas Holloway. 



W. S. Blake, (Writing Engraver.) 



John Puke, (Writing Engraver.) 



William Blake. 



William Skeltox. 



Mariano Bovi. 



Robert Dunkarton. ~- 



Wilson Lowry. 



John Anderson, (Engraver on Wood.) 



RiCRARD Austin, (Steel Letter Cutter and Engraver 

 on Wood.) No. 



