1776 Letter of Marque

[SigsegV]

Not really a movie prop, more of a historical document recreation, but figured I'd share it. Last night I was browsing Magnoli Props and saw this, and figured I could probably do something similar, if substantially less fancy. Some searching online for a good example of a plain letter of marque brought me to this one from 1776, which was cool enough that I had to do it. So far I've got the printed parts of the text and the signature done, so it just needs to have the blanks filled in so I can print it out and age it, which I'll do tomorrow.

Here's a PDF of it with the blanks left blank: View attachment letter of marque - blank.pdf

And here's the .docx file if you want to fill it in before printing it out: View attachment letter of marque - blank.docx
(Font used is Caslon Antique.)

I'll take pictures and put them up when I finish mine.

 

[repy]

Great catch : thanks for sharing.

 

[kidnamedrichie]

Great job! Thanks for sharing.

 

[SigsegV]

Well, I found a different version of Caslon Antique that has the proper long s character, but the character spacing was a little off so I had to redo the formatting. I also noticed a couple of minor errors in spelling and punctuation that I fixed. Anyway, here are the pdf and docx after the fix:View attachment letter of marque - blank.pdf View attachment letter of marque.docx

 

[Barneyrfd]

PRESIDENT is still misspelled. Otherwise very nice.

 

[SigsegV]

PRESIDENT is still misspelled. Otherwise very nice.

Thanks, I made a ton of spelling errors since I was too focused on the formatting, and the long s's threw me off a fair bit too.

I've printed out a few test version and decided that they're just too small on letter size paper, so I'm going to order some legal size and try again.