PHOTOGRAVURE STAMPS
NEW PROCESS FOR GREAT BRITAIN (riou CUR OWN COIHESI'ONDiaT.) LONDON, January 2.
The Post Office Department is taking delivery in a few days of the first machine for printing all postage stamps by the photogravure process. It will then undergo tests by experts. By the summer the new stamps will completely replace the present issue. While there will be no variation in the design of the stamps, the colours will be deeper, and the King's head will stand out with greater prominence. Several European countries have adopted this process, although the firm, Messrs Harrison and Sons, of Hayes, Middlesex, which is supplying the post office with the machines, is one of the pioneers of this work—in fact, 12 years ago it secured a contract for producing photogravure stamps l'or Egypt.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21085, 9 February 1934, Page 7
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