Outsize Rubber Stamp
Shipping clerks are accustomed to using a variety of rubber stamps in preparing shipping papers and some of these items of office equipment reach exceptional sizes. However, recently local shipping offices added to their collection an outsize in stamps, so large that the clerks will have to set to work with the paste brush and attach an additional sheet of paper to the shipping notes. This “daddy of them all” stamp, as one official described it, comprises a clause of about 530 words covering exigencies caused by the war, and the face of the stamp measures about sin. by 4in.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20065, 11 October 1939, Page 7
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103Outsize Rubber Stamp Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20065, 11 October 1939, Page 7
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