Charles Moïse Briquet (30 August 1839, in Geneva – 24 January 1918, in Geneva) was a noted Swiss filigranologist. He was the first, or among the first, to suggest the use of

watermarks A watermark is an identifying image or pattern in paper that appears as various shades of lightness/darkness when viewed by transmitted light (or when viewed by reflected light, atop a dark background), caused by thickness or density variations ...

for dating paper. He produced in 1907 the mammoth four-volume work ''Les Filigranes''. His papers, including his collection of traced watermarks, are kept at the Bibliothèque de Genève.

Works by Briquet that have been published in English

* "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).Most widely held works by C.-M Briquet
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Briquet, Charles Moise Watermarking 1839 births 1918 deaths 19th-century Swiss historians Swiss male writers Scientists from Geneva