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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
327
Great
precaution
is
taken
in
the
printing
of
the
stamps
to
provide
against
forgery.
All
the
lines
and
marks,
as
well
as
the
initial
letters
in
the
corner,
are
arranged
so
as
to
make
the
whole
affair
inimitable.
The
best
preservative,
however,
in
our
opinion,
against
a
spurious
article,
is
the
arrangement
under
which
stamps
are
sold.
Only
obtainable
in
any
large
quantity
from
the
Stamp
or
Post-Offices,
any
attempt
on
the
part
of
the
forger
to
put
a
base
article
into
circulation
is
encumbered
with
difficulties.
Stamps,
while
they
do
duty
for
coin,
are
used
almost
exclusively
for
small
transactions,
and
generally
among
people
well
known
to
each
other.
Other
precautions
are
nevertheless
very
necessary;
and
besides
the
initial
letters
on
each
stamp--different
in
every
one
of
the
two
hundred
and
forty
in
the
sheet--which
are
regarded
as
so
many
checks
on
the
forger,
this
pest
to
society
would
have
to
engrave
his
own
die,
and
cast
his
own
blocks,
and
find
a
drilling-machine,
perhaps
the
most
difficult
undertaking
of
all.
The
paper,
besides,
would
be
a
considerable
obstacle,
and
not
less
so
the
ink,
for
that
used
in
this
manufacture
differs
from
ordinary
printer's
ink,
not
merely
in
colour,
but
in
being
soluble
in
water.
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