A record that survived twelve centuries
At Kollam, Kerala, in 849 CE, a royal grant was inscribed on copper plates, for one reason: copper cannot be quietly edited. The witnesses signed in Arabic, Pahlavi and Hebrew script. Merchants of the Gulf trade, doing cross-border business with Kerala on a record built to outlive them all. It survives to this day.
“Copperplate” is also the most celebrated handwriting in the English language, the round hand named for the engraved plates that printed its manuals.
Fine writing on one side of the word. Permanent records on the other. That is exactly where we work.