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After that date, developments allowed the use of a printing press to produce the patterns.\n\nDeighton was involved in a legal dispute with rival Manchester-based designer William Briggs over who had invented the perforation technique for transfers. Briggs applied for a patent in 1874, but evidence shows Deighton was selling his transfers from 1870; at that time Briggs was using block printing rather than the perforating machine.","physicalDescription":"Transfer pattern, probably for a table centre, depicting carnations within a delicate scrollwork border. 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