Charles-Moïse Briquet

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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]

Works in English translation

  • "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]

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  1. Briquet, Charles-Moïse Historischen Lexikon der Schweiz
  2. 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
  3. Most widely held works by C.-M Briquet WorldCat Identities