The Bank of England note is not of the same thickness all through. The ?aper is thicker in the left-hand corner o enable it to take a better and sharper impression of the vignette there, and is also considerably thicker in the dark shadows of the centre letters and under the figures at the ends. Counterfeit notes are invariably of one thickness.
Mr Arthur J. Evans gives some interesting details in the London " Times of further discoveries at Kuossos, Crete, and lie notes the presence of clay chafing-pans that seem to have served as censors for the ritual fumigation of chambers, and even lumps of actual incenso which, when burnt, retain their characteristic odour efter the lapse of thirty-five centuries.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10105, 17 March 1911, Page 3
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