CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895 — Page 477

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(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

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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.