CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895 — Page 476

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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