Secret Telegram Forms. USEFUL INVENTION TO HIDE WIRES FROM PRYING EYES.

Progress, Volume I, Issue 6, 2 April 1906, Page 143

Secret Telegram Forms. USEFUL INVENTION TO HIDE WIRES FROM PRYING EYES.

One of those simple little contrivances which are so useful and seem so obvious that it is hard to understand how they escaped being invented long ago, has been brought out by Mr. Vickery, stationer, of 179 Regent street, London. It is just a little device by means of which a telegram may be sent to the telegraph office secure from the observation of the servant who carries it. It is the familiar white telegram form, but prepared with a perforated gummed edge. The message to be despatched having been written, the form is folded over, and the edges gummed down as in the case of a letter card. It meets a frequently felt want, for everybody has occasion at times to send telegrams of a business or personal nature which it is undesirable that the messenger who carries them should have the opportunity to read. It often happens that a gentleman has to choose between the inconvenience of going personally to the telegraph office, and the annoyance of disclosing to a butler, a club servant, or clerk the nature of a confidential message to a stockbroker, a lawyer, or an intimate friend. Vickery's make up the blocks of forms in neat leather gases at various prices from 7s. 6d. upwards.