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COL
0.
473
(embossed with the Crown alone) on an unexecuted document on
which an embossment of date had been obtained
(the stamp used
being then removed
in the latter case - say a two cent one
and replaced by the cancelled one of $10 thus giving the
impression that both stamp and document had been embossed in
would be rendered
-
one instead of in two separate acts)
possible even tho' perhaps not probable, I should prefer the
double dated die.
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Messrs De La Rue's suggestion that the presses now in
Hong Kong should be at any rate temporarily utilised with the
new dies, coloured impressions being obtained by means of hand
rollers, is worthy of trial, if such colouring of the die face
by hand would not entail delay and consequent inconvenience
to the public, whose documents as explained in my original
Report have frequently to be stamped in large quantities at
short notice. The saving in machinery would be considerable,
while the extra manual labour would in the East cost but little.
N.G.Mitchell Innes.