Scope and Contents These stamps show the following: Private and personal Nil carborundum illegitim Please receipt and return (2 stamps) Please file in Confidential Draft Copy Urgent Printed papers reduced rate Important Chinese Science Research Account Printed matter rate Tentative and provisional Please return for filing Air mail Par avion 3 stamps with Chinese characters a) te 特 [special] b) suda 速達 [express] c) youyihui qian 友誼會箋 [friendship association document]. All these stamps were found in a...

Scope and Contents The Chinese characters are 鬪百草牌為記.The stamp is inscribed on the back ‘Bramley Leeds 1954’. It has two holes drilled through the centre and a cord threaded through one of the holes. NRI archive item NRI/SCC2/179/12 is a letter from R.A. Salaman to Joseph Needham dated 5 Feb. 1955 stating ‘I found this block in a dis-used textile mill. […] It came from the mills in Bramley near Leeds called the Airvale Dye Works which belongs to the Bradford Dyer’s Association. They would like to...

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Not found: One box of date stamps (“lightning” numbering machine).