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Mr. C. T. Courtney Lewis' Baxter Year Book 1912, and which we will call No. 3 in the order of its appearance. This Stamp, like No. 2 Stamp, is always embossed in plain relief from a die. The cause for Baxter again having to change the design for his Stamp will not this time be found due to Leighton, but the following extract from the columns of the "Art Journal" of 1852 gives us the 56 Baxter's Stamps clue for the next design: "Printing in colours. Mr. Baxter, the well- known producer of the numberless elegant coloured prints that are so attractive in the shop windows of our stationers, is desirous that we should correct an error that appeared in a previous issue with reference to the process adopted by the Chevalier Harlinger at the state printing office of Vienna. Harlinger's prints are Chromo-lithographic, or from stones Mr. Baxter's from Wood blocks. It will thus be evident to all acquainted with the two processes, that the latter has an incalculable advantage of the former, inasmuch as they may be worked almost ad innnitum, while the other will scarcely go beyond two thousand. Mr. Baxter assures us he has taken millions* of some of his subjects, and there is no doubt, from their great popularity, of such being the fact. Moreover, his process being patented in Germany, as elsewhere, it could not be used there without his permission." The foregoing extract goes to prove that Baxter now thought it necessary to design a Stamp to convey the fact that his Patent rights covered Great Britain, France, Belgium, and Germany, &c. , and which we will call No. 4, as in the order of its appearance, and is No. 2 illus- tration in Mr. C. T. Courtney Lewis' Baxter Year Book 1912. This Stamp, like Nos. 2 and 3, is always embossed in plain relief from a die,

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