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Stamp and Envelope Moistener. (open access)

Stamp and Envelope Moistener.

Patent for a new and improved moistener for stamps and envelopes. This design "is to provide apparatus for moistening stamps and adhesive envelopes; and it consists in certain improvements in that class of stamp-moisteners in which a roller carrying an endless belt of cloth is journaled on a box or a cup containing water, into which the endless band projects" (lines 8-14).
Date: August 5, 1884
Creator: Beaumont, David Greenleaf
System: The Portal to Texas History