The only meaning for a verb "vandyke" I can find means "To scollop an edge after the fashion of the collars painted by Vandyck in the reign of Charles I. The scolloped edges are said to be vandyked" (http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/english/va/vandyke.html)
Google is wonderful, though, and gave me 873 pages of varying relevance. This meaning was very common.
Paul
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Cataloguing some maps produced during WWI by the Survey of Egypt (ca.
1916 in particular), I have come across a few which have been printed by
this process - they are referred to as "Vandyked at the Survey of
Egypt". I was intrigued to know if anyone recognised this printing
method. The closest I could guess was that it somehow used Vandyke paper.
Of no great urgency, import or relevance, I am just interested ...
Thanks
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