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  2. Indian copper plate inscriptions - Wikipedia

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    Indian copper plate inscriptions. Indian copper plate inscriptions are historical legal records engraved on copper plates in the Indian subcontinent. [1] Donative inscriptions engraved on copper plates, often joined by a ring with the seal of the donor, were legal documents registering the act of endowment. It was probably necessary to produce ...

  3. Copperplate script - Wikipedia

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    An example of George Bickham 's English Roundhand lettering and engraving ability. A copperplate script is a style of calligraphic writing most commonly associated with English Roundhand. Although often used as an umbrella term for various forms of pointed pen calligraphy, Copperplate most accurately refers to script styles represented in ...

  4. Quilon Syrian copper plates - Wikipedia

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    Quilon Syrian copper plates. The Kollam (Quilon) Syrian copper plates, also known as the Kollam Tarisappalli copper plates, document a royal grant issued by Ayyan Adikal, the chieftain of Kollam, to a Syrian Christian merchant named Mar Sapir Iso in Kerala, India. The inscription is engraved on six copper plates in Old Malayalam or early Middle ...

  5. Velvikudi inscription - Wikipedia

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    The Velvikudi inscription is an 8th-century bilingual copper-plate grant from the Pandya kingdom of southern India. Inscribed in Tamil and Sanskrit languages, it records the renewal of a grant of the Velvikudi village to a brahmana by the Pandya king Nedunjadaiyan Varaguna-varman I alias Jatila Parantaka (r. c. 768—815 CE) in c. 769-770 CE.

  6. Art and engraving on United States banknotes - Wikipedia

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    Art and engraving on United States banknotes. In early 18th century Colonial America, engravers began experimenting with copper plates as an alternative medium to wood. Applied to the production of paper currency, copper-plate engraving allowed for greater detail and production during printing. It was the transition to steel engraving that ...

  7. Engraving - Wikipedia

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    Other terms often used for printed engravings are copper engraving, copper-plate engraving or line engraving. Steel engraving is the same technique, on steel or steel-faced plates, and was mostly used for banknotes, illustrations for books, magazines and reproductive prints, letterheads and similar uses from about 1790 to the early 20th century, when the technique became less popular, except ...

  8. Tamil copper-plate inscriptions - Wikipedia

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    Tamil copper-plate inscriptions are copper-plate records of grants of villages, plots of cultivable lands or other privileges to private individuals or public institutions by the members of the various South Indian royal dynasties. [1] The study of these inscriptions has been especially important in reconstructing the history of Tamil Nadu. [2]

  9. Copperplate map of London - Wikipedia

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    The "Copperplate" map of London is an early large-scale printed map of the City of London and its immediate environs, surveyed between 1553 and 1559, which survives only in part. It is the earliest true map of London (as opposed to panoramic views, such as those of Anton van den Wyngaerde). The original map was probably designed for hanging on ...