Making Postage Stamps

Every part öf postage stamp maklog i donO ly hand. The designs are ooigraved om. steel, 200 stamps on a ingle plato. These plates are inkod iby two men, and tlwn are printed by a girl auid a man on a large hian-d press. They are dried as fast as priinted, and then punmod with a staTClh paste made írom potatoes. TSils paste is dried by pUitinff tlic ■flueete in a ateta fanning machine, aoil tihen the Kta.mps are subjected to a pressuire of ,000 toais in a liydraalii1 press. Next t'he sheets are cut eo that Oach one contains 100 etatnpe, aiter which the pap(r between tule stamps is periorated, and after being pressed, t(he sheets are filed away. If a single stamp is lnjured tlie whole slioet is bura ld.