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Stamps

However, the decision to automate booklet production had already
been made, with the purchase of another special machine dedi-
cated to their assembly. This ingenious machine was still in use 9
years later:

Fig.2
On the left is the coil of covers, and above, the coil of stamps.
Still, a few years went by before the workshop started to adopt
this new manufacturing technique, since the first dated booklet, of
which only three are known, is from 5 December 1928!

Fig.3
Note that the bridge separating the two panels is characteristical-
ly half-a-stamp wide. This is where the stamps were glued to the
cover, rather than stapled. On the left, the numbering process that
takes place once every 4 booklets. One turn of the cylinder printed
8.

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