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Excerpt from The Universal Counterfeit Bank Note Detector, at Sight: A System of Infallible Detection, Applicable to All Modern Plates of All Banks in the U. S., Now in Circulation or Hereafter Issued
The Geometric Lathe differs Very ma terially from any other turning engine hitherto invented. The only one which has any similarity in the work produced, is the Rose Engine, but that is only capa ble of copying patterns previously made upon guides, ' while the Geometric Lathe forms its own patterns, 'which are all art' ginals, and as various and unlimited as the Kaleidoscope. J The impossibility of suc cessfully imitating this work, by any pro cess of hand-work within the reach of the whole combined talent of conn-f terfeiters, will not be doubted when the severe test to which it has been sub mitted, since its first introduction into use, is recollected, and even supposing any combination of counterfeiters to be in pos session of the different machines and ap pendages necessary to effect their object, they would soon learn that the time which would be required to learn the use of these implements in secret could be much more profitably employed in any honest occu patiou.
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