A FORGED RECEIPT
PORTION OF THE SAME
By kind permission of “Knowledge”
TESTS TO DISTINGUISH OLD FROM NEW INKS
(SEE [PAGE 110])
The statistics on this point are very remarkable. Between the years 1797 and 1811, 471 people were convicted of uttering the notes or having them in their possession.
In 1814, the number of fraudulent one pound notes detected was 10,342; in 1815, 14,085; in 1816, 21,860; in 1817, 21,241; and during the first three months of 1818, 8,937.