Von A.C. bis Zinco

Albert.—A popu­lar small size of pri­vate note paper, 6 by 3⅞ in. when folded to fly sheet, prin­ci­pally pre­fer­red for ladies‘ uses despite its mas­cu­line description.

Ele­phant.—A size of paper, 23 in. by 28 in., used occa­sio­nally in car­tridge paper and paper han­gings. It is sup­po­sed to derive its name from the fact that it origi­nally con­tai­ned a water­mark of an ele­phant, but there is not much evi­dence to sup­port this theory.

H., H.B., H.H. etc.—Abbre­via­ted descrip­ti­ons applied to black­lead pen­cils. H. signi­fies hard, and the exact degree of hard­ness is fur­ther spe­ci­fied by the num­ber of H’s., thus one H. would repre­sent a merely hard pen­cil while 6H would cor­re­spond to about the maxi­mum degree of hard­ness. H.B. deno­tes hard and black, while fur­ther degrees of soft­ness and black­ness are spe­ci­fied by the num­ber of B.’s. Thus, while B. repres­ents a soft black pen­cil, B.B. would indi­cate a fur­ther degree of softness.

Music Paper.—A class of high qua­lity prin­ting paper of stan­dard size made with spe­cial con­side­ra­tion to thic­k­ness, sur­face, flat­ness and fle­xi­bi­lity. The cor­rect way of grain for ope­ning easily and not cur­ling is important.

Pro­pel­ling Pen­cils.—The type of pocket pen­cil which car­ries a slen­der lead in a tube and which has a screw of simi­lar mecha­nism for the pur­pose of pro­pel­ling the lead point up for wri­ting or down into the case for safety.

Style.—From “stylus”, the imple­ment with which the early Egyp­ti­ans incised their his­to­ri­cal records or bees­wax tablets, the incis­i­ons being after­wards fil­led in with ear­thy colour for distinc­tion, effect and endu­rance. The modern “style” is a short blunt pen­cil with a bone or agate point, and is used for wri­ting on mani­fold dupli­ca­tes where two-​sided car­bon bet­ween the lea­ves pro­du­ces a dou­ble copy. The leaf on which the style is used is thin mani­fold, the trans­pa­rency of which per­mits the car­bon impres­sion to show through cle­arly from the back.

Water­line Ruling.—A method of ruling employed when the lines are requi­red to be barely visi­ble, as in occa­sio­nal note paper and for­eign bank­post orders. The ruling ink is thin­ned down for the pur­pose of a mere tint. Water­li­ning is also accom­plished by the paper­ma­ker in the manu­fac­ture of brief fool­scaps and other legal forms by embo­dy­ing the pat­tern as a water­mark. Mainly this method is employed in the pro­duc­tion of hand-​made papers, in which case the wire­mould in which the sheets are for­med con­ta­ins the water­line pat­tern in relief. The impres­sion of the rai­sed wires on the moist pulp crea­tes the neces­sary watermark.

Harry A. Mad­dox: A Dic­tion­ary of Sta­tio­nery. J. Whita­ker and Sons, Ltd, Lon­don. 2. überar­beitete Auf­lage 1942, Nach­druck 1946. Gedruckt in Eng­land von Unwin Brot­hers Limi­ted, Lon­don and Woking. 10,5 × 16,5 cm, 124 Sei­ten. Ehe­ma­li­ges Bibliotheks-​Exemplar. – Der Blei­stift im ers­ten Bild ist ein Wolff’s Royal Sove­reign 5151 HB, her­ge­stellt in Pon­ty­clun, Gla­morgan (Wales).