£60
Textile Manufacture. A mid-Victorian Letters Patent, Matthew Townsend of Leicester, Fancy Hosier, for an Invention for "Improvements in Machinery for Manufacture of Knitted Fabrics", No. 2858, 17th November, 1859, two sheets of mixed size parchment, printed in script with decorative pictorial borders, red-ruled, further inscribed in manuscript, docketed and indistinctly signed by the then Clerk of Commissioners, yellow wax seal affixed, the largest sheet 50.5 x 75cm
The parchment and sheets and seal with some wear.
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