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17th inst. with design for a small double dating embossing die,

and a drawing of the arrangement of the plugs in the die.

Before reporting to the Colonial Office we should be glad

to hear whether you think the proposed design would be satis-

factory.

N.G.Mitchell-innes

to

Crown Agents

24th October 1895.

The design now submitted is a great improvement, and would,

1 think, prove very suitable, should the Colony decide to

employ a double-dating die.

As you are, 1 believe, of opinion that the danger of

making use of the same adhesive stamp twice in one day if a

single-dating die be employed, is, in the case of Hong Kong,

somewhat remote an opinion in which 1 fully concur 1 would

suggest that Messrs. De La Rue be requested to submit, as an

alternative, a design for a small single-dating die, by which,

should the Colony elect to use it in preference to a double-

dating die, a further economy of space would be effected.

I am inclined to think that it would be quite possible to

use an adhesive stamp of the size of the existing Hong Kong

postage stamps only, even if the double-dating die, as now

proposed, were selected.