Other formats

    TEI XML file   ePub eBook file  

Connect

    mail icontwitter iconBlogspot iconrss icon

The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 8, Issue 5 (September 1, 1933)

Facsimile Of A Letter Of The Olden Times. — Prompted by the article, “The Royal Mail,” in the May issue of the “N. Z. Railways Magazine,” Mr. H. McArtney (of the H. M. Sauce Co.) sent in specimens of letters received in New Zealand in 1844 and 1848, before adhesive stamps were in use. The handwriting is so fine that it averages about a dozen lines to the inch. The script of one of the letters would fill about eight columns of a daily newspaper

Facsimile Of A Letter Of The Olden Times. Prompted by the article, “The Royal Mail,” in the May issue of the “N. Z. Railways Magazine,” Mr. H. McArtney (of the H. M. Sauce Co.) sent in specimens of letters received in New Zealand in 1844 and 1848, before adhesive stamps were in use. The handwriting is so fine that it averages about a dozen lines to the inch. The script of one of the letters would fill about eight columns of a daily newspaper.

Facsimile Of A Letter Of The Olden Times.
Prompted by the article, “The Royal Mail,” in the May issue of the “N. Z. Railways Magazine,” Mr. H. McArtney (of the H. M. Sauce Co.) sent in specimens of letters received in New Zealand in 1844 and 1848, before adhesive stamps were in use. The handwriting is so fine that it averages about a dozen lines to the inch. The script of one of the letters would fill about eight columns of a daily newspaper.