File:Heath's Greatly Improved and Enlarged Infallible Government Counterfeit Detector, at Sight (IA heathsgreatlyimp3bh1heat).pdf

Variety 3-BH-1: Heath Counterfeit Detectors varied from edition to edition, and noted Numismatist Eric P. Newman, whose collection this particular Counterfeit Detector is from, developed a classification system to compare and describe their variety. This particular variety is described as follows: Third edition in Introduction only; Banking House size; BANKING HOUSE AND COUNTING ROOM EDITION on title page; 1870 copyright date with filing with Librarian of Congress instead of with Clerk of Massachusetts District Court; Ornamental cover with folded gold ribbon and 8 styles of gold lettering with incorrect July 12, 1867 patent date; Publisher and copyrighter changed to LABAN HEATH & CO.; No stereotype or printer named; Heath address changed from 20 WASHINGTON STREET to 30 HANOVER STREET; TEACHER OF COUNTERFEIT DETECTION eliminated from title page; Most plates moved to back of book instead of being interspersed; Table of contents instead of numbered sections; 39 pages of text (including 1 page of microscope illustrations) before recommendations and advertising; First advertising in Banking House edition of The American Bond Detector; On page 35 the word PRECEEDING is improperly used as to placement of counterfeit plate impressions which follow page 35; List of Illustrations has 16 entries; Plates are Frontispiece, Treasury Letter; Heath card without plate number, Fraction Currency, 2 through 11, $100 Boston, $20 New York, $10 Philadelphia, $50 U.S. Note and $10 U.S. Note, but order of last two plates differs from List of Illustrations and page 35; 8 pages of recommendations and advertising with American Bond Detector advertising split into two separated segments.