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Watermarks can be informative for historians, since they offer clues for when or where a document was prepared. The musicologist Alan Tyson conducted a comprehensive survey of the forms of paper employed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, based primarily on watermarks, and was thus enabled to correct the date (and often place of origin) assigned by earlier scholars to the composer's compositions. Filigranology is the study of watermarks.

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