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Stamps

• What’s more, the back of the booklet is completely blank and
shows a clearly marked tread, providing an additional argument
in favour of flat, rather than rotary, printing:

Fig.6
• Lastly, some differences are visible in the layout of the text, as
well as a glaring error in one of the tariffs (0.10 instead of 10
cents), which is corrected on the version that would be issued:

Fig.6 B
Thus these last two booklets, which are truly exceptional, are in
our opinion the only known examples of booklets of rotary-printed
stamps inserted in flat-printed test covers!
It is likely that the workshop staff, not being able to print the covers
for their initial test on a dedicated rotary press (a machine which
the administration had decided not to buy), “made the best of what
they had” by taking the model and printing technique of the covers
of the small flat-printed booklets without advertising it had pro-
duced a good ten years earlier, and adapting them to the format of
the booklets they were currently creating.

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