Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-06-13

OF Acids The Clever Trick of Cutting
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die of letter, and cnnr.I the stnnus with
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-ramns urIrs. thev or,. nartfruIarIv had
The men ary,r,,.J in tb.. bu,ipr.. If using
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stan,D. TIN, p,.fI nets nrnn the c,nc.II,-
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starnp In rLis wav n .ranp that has
once h...r, rs.J is reIieIeI almost entirely
nf irs black marks II any I,inrk remains
after the wa,hfu, prnc,.ss the operator
takes a ,harp knife which he has made
for the. rurn,. - and d.frIv scratches tb,.
stnmp nutII the rrm,fpirg black marks
are almost i. r,r entirely rsmovrd This
e, n he dome readily when th. marks ar.
unnn the L,II b.aL or the face ~ TN.
historic D,r,.r,g, who's. vi,,nrtr. adnrns
IN. sfouI, ~ rbi. r,,rtinnris ybire. and
unon a white snare the stann can ba
-rratchaJ until il i nearly thrru',h with
ont drtrcti,n
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los not cover the sf,nn Lut falls only
upon one corner. the rest going upon the
envelope. The operator takes stamp that
has a black mark. say upon the left hand
lower corner He carefully cuts a square
piece out or that corner, making il large.
enough to cut away all the cancelled por-
tion He then secures stamp ON which
the cauccllatluE-rnArk has fallen in some
other corner lie carefully cuts ont the
same sized square from the lower left
hand corner of this stamp, and joining it
with the first stamp he has whole stamp
upon which there are no cancellation
marks These stamps are used upon pack
ages which are tied with a string, and the
string j. IuErniously placed over the cut
stamps.
Take any package of a dozen letters
and yuu will sec how Easy il i. tu find
stamps for this hu>iu,.~-" A. he spOkr
the official drew from his porkrt bundle
of half IA doZru letter, Upon the first let
ter the cancellation mark was only upon
the lower right corner If the stamp. The.
second was cancelled completely and the
third WAS marked only upon the upper
left hand corner. - a combination could
have been easily made with the stamp
upon the fir~t and third letters
wuNbEEFrL SKILL uF THE ~wINpLERs.
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They have clever tools and the right kind
Of mucilag.. and some 20 even sn far as To
have culuriug processes for touching up a
Garfield black eve OF "A Washington soiled
cheek What do they do with the worked
over STAMPS, They do not sell them. As
many suppose. ami that fact renders de
lection more difficult When a man be
comes successful in working over cancelled
stamps he cndrlvors to get into some bust
ness which will require the sending and
rrcpirt Of many Registered letters and
packages. The most popular scheme is t.
90 into the ,hr;,p iewrIry md fancy-trick
business. The operator laws in a stock Of
the chrau,>t kind Of iewrlry and adyer-
tiSes Thoroughly through the country.
especially in rural districts. A gold watch
with chain and charm for $50 is a bait
that catches great many green specula-
tors. and As they are instructed to send IT,
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