Charles Moïse Briquet (30 August 1839, in Geneva – 24 January 1918, in Geneva) was a noted Swiss filigranologist.[1] He was the first, or among the first, to suggest the use of watermarks for dating paper. He produced in 1907 the mammoth four-volume work Les Filigranes.[2] His papers, including his collection of traced watermarks, are kept at the Bibliothèque de Genève.
Charles-Moïse Briquet
Works by Briquet that have been published in English edit
- "The Briquet Album : a miscellany on watermarks, supplementing Dr. Briquet's "Les filigranes", (1952).
- "Briquet's Opuscula; the complete works of Dr. C.M. Briquet without Les filigranes", (1955).[3]
References edit
- ^ Briquet, Charles-Moïse Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz
- ^ Chamberlain, Daven Christopher (2010) Briquet, Charles Moïse (1839–1918) in Suarez, Michael F. and H. R. Woudhuysen eds The Oxford Companion to the Book, Oxford University Press
- ^ Most widely held works by C.-M Briquet WorldCat Identities