C. O.
169765
FLOP To ad 27 SFP 9H
From
Messrs De La Rue & Co.
Crown Agents.
12th. Sept. 3895.
We now send you an amended design for double dated
over-embossing die of the smallest size we can make.
We should strongly advise you to continue having the stamps
printed in doubly fugitive ink, as they might sometimes
require to be cancelled by writing. If however they are
always to be cancelled by the over-embossing die, it would
be safe to print them in singly fugitive ink.
From
Crown Agents
πο
N. G. Mitchell-Innes Es
16th. Sept. 1895.
We enclose for your information a further report we
have received from Messrs De La Rue & Co. with an amended
design for the double dating die.
The original papers we also enclosed; please return
them with your reply.
TO
From
M. G. Mitchell-Innes
E. E. Blake Esq.
17th. Sept. 1895.
PRIVATE
Stating that sketch is too large and unnecessarily
elaborate. Suggesting double band, as in memo. of 30/3/95
Enquiring the ther another firm could not be applied to.
From
Crown Agents
To
Messrs De La Rue & Co.
J8th. Sept. 1895.
We request you to inform us whether there is any
difficulty in making a double dating machine with a narrow
band with the two sets of figures inside about the size
of/