The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-11-20
UNCLE SAM MAKES 700 MILES
OF STAMPS EVERY DAY
Continued From Fourth Page.

may be "A red of yellowish cast, while
an excessively thin layer may exhibit
Il blush cast. The former is Known
as overtone and the latter undcrtonc.
When postage stamp plate is new
the overtone will predominant, while
as ii wears the undcrtone becomes APP
parent. This partly explains what you
term as shades, although there are
other factors that govern this varia-
ton. Although we take precautions
To use an ink that exhibits the mini
mum of difference between overtone
and undcrtone, and discard the plate
when il exhibits pronounced wear, this
variation is bound to exist.
The following of paper, which is in
evitable. no matter how expensive the
paper may be, changes the color by
introducing Just that amount of yell
low just as surely as if it were added
To the ink formula.
Exposure to acid fumes, NJ matter
how dilute, sooner OF later will affect
the color to produce shades, and it is
tructible ink. for if we did there would
be no difficulty in removing the can
collation. marks and using stamp
Indefinitely. We aim to give YOU the
best that we can make that will meet
with all conditions.
All are aware, no doubt, of the de
atruction by the bureau of large
number Of two-Ccnt Panama Pacific
stamps as the result
Of an error in the designation of the
same. There were ii,06i,S0O Of these
stamps printed, having II face value of
$S2l,296, yet not a single stamp of this
series ever left the bureau. What Il
prize one of these stamps would have
been Ia the collector.
AS result of change from the
original design in the 50-ccnt parcel
post stamps, j70,SO0 of that series
with a face value of s2So,iO0, We're de-
,troyed. Nor did one of these stamps
leave the bureau precincts
Excellent System.
Near the close of the past fiscal year
inspectors of the postoHicc department
y listed the bureau, all unannounced.
e. check up our accounts, and after
task of many days duration the ac-
counts checked out to the last one
cent stamp, and we received the heart
lest compliments for the excellent sys-
tenn We have i'm practice at the bureau.
over 1000, 100000 of stamps were ac-
hat not IL single stamp was misplaced
~ went astray.
Securities to the value of over three
billions of dollars were manufactured
BY the bureau during the year 1913,
aud to the credit Of our honest en-
Dloyes he 1t said that all of this vast
sum was handled without the loss of "a
single penny or postage stamp To the
government and none of its faithful
oilers ever engaged in the counter
citing of our products.
After seven years labor we have |
he printing of postage stamps that
will completely revolutionize stamp |
printing from intagilo plates. The new
Machine. which is expected to be
placed In operation in the bureau OF
engraving and printing within the next |
hirty days, is the result of the labor |
md efforts of Benjamin r. Stickney, |
Mechanical expert and designer of the |
bureau.
This press combines twenty three |
operations I'm one. IL prints, gums and |
,erforates the stamps. cuts them into |
sections of 100 stamps each, or will ,
inish the stamps i'm coils of 500 and |
900 stamps per coil.
1t turns out the finished product
eady for shipment to the postmasters
# our country. BY it's use "A saving
# s. per cent or s2s0,00O will be eff
ected each year in the present cost of
printing the stamps. !