Saturday, February 29, 2020

(iv) Numeral Cut-down

 Numeral Cut-down


During the 1930's, all the single letters having been utilised in creating relief date-stamps, two numeral cut-downs were engraved entailing removal of the office name from the original date-stamps and then centrally engraving a numeral at the top. The numbers utilised were '2' and '3'. The source of the original date-stamps is unknown. A cut-down which appears to bear the numeral 1 is in fact a worn letter I). A numeral cut-down 1 was not manufactured.





N.S.W. Numeral cut-down '3'