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Should it be decided to employ the existing presses,
two hand rollers at a cost of about 6/- each, would be necessary and a few pounds of specially prepared embossing ink at 10/- per
lb.
VI O.
Crown Agents
to
N.G. Mitchell Innes.
5th.November 1895.
With reference to your memorandum of 24th.ulto we
enclose reports from Messrs De La Rue & Co. dated 29th.Oct. and 1st.Nov. with a design and plan of the die for a single
We also dating embossed stamp made as small as possible. enclose their report of 17th.Oct. with design and plan of the double-dating die for comparison with the single-dating one. Please return the correspondence with any remarks you may wish
to make.
N.G.Mitchell-Innes
to
Crown Agents.
7th.Nov.1895.
Correspondence returned with thanks.
I have no further
suggestions to make.
as by utilising a cancelled stamp of
The single-dated die is certainly very compact, but, view of the, practically, inconsiderable difference in the amount of die space required, and of the fact that, by its use,
fraud
in
say
$10