Chelsea Mills (Norwich, Connecticut)

The first real recording of "mummy paper" was in a broadside published for the Norwich Jubilee in 1858. At the bottom of the sheet there appeared this notice

 “This paper is made by the Chelsea Manufacturing Company, Greenville, Conn., the largest paper manufactory in the world. The material of which it is made, was brought from Egypt. It was taken from ancient tombs where it had been used in embalming mummies.”

The Norwich Jubilee, a souvenir book published by John W. Stedman at the same time, boasted that the book was entirely a Norwich product, and that the paper upon which it was printed had come from the Chelsea mills. As it is contemporaneous with the broadside, it is almost certainly printed on “mummy paper

The Norwich Jubilee, a souvenir book published by John W. Stedman at the same time, boasted that the book was entirely a Norwich product, and that the paper upon which it was printed had come from the Chelsea mills. As it is contemporaneous with the broadside, it is almost certainly printed on “mummy paper

The book was bound in two separate styles a gold tooled leather binding (by Lewis and Elisha Edwards) for those who wished something more elaborate. and a publisher's cloth binding for general sale and use.

This book is probably the only one which can be located, that can be "proven" to have been printed on mummy paper.