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It is said the work was done with a pointed nail. As might be expected, it was very crude. Another interesting stamp was issued in the island of Trinidad in 1855. In this case, the stone, after the designs had been placed upon it, was very deeply bitten with acid, so that it might properly be called etched and the impressions from it be said to be typographed from stone.
It was usually writing paper, such as would be found at a stationers at that period. Some of the rare type-set stamps of British Guiana were printed on the paper used for lining sugar barrels. The stamps of the first issue of Shanghai supply an unique variety in typographed stamps.
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