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Ageometric lathe was used for making ornamental patterns on the plates used in printingbank notes andpostage stamps. It is sometimes called aguilloché lathe.

It was developed early in the nineteenth century when efforts were introduced to combat forgery, and is an adaptation of anornamental turning lathe.

The lathe was able to generate intersecting and interlacing patterns of fine lines in various shapes, which were almost impossible to forge by hand-engraving. They were used by many nationalmints.

• Rose engine
• Security printing
• Guilloché
• Spirograph
• Tusi couple

• Peter Bower, 'Economic warfare: Banknote Forgery as a deliberate weapon', and Maureen Greenland, 'Compound plate printing and nineteenth-century bank notes, in Virginia Hewitt, ed.The Banker's Art: Studies in paper money, pp 46–63, and pp 84–87, The British Museum Press, 1995, (ISBN 0-7141-0879-0)

• Geometric chuck, 19th century, Science Museum Group Collection Online

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