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November 23, 1848.—The idea of perforating sheets of postage stamps was due to Henry Archer, who devised a machine for “cutting or stamping around the margin of every stamp a consecutive series holes whereby the tearing up of the sheet will greatly facilitated,” and obtained an English patent for his invention on Nov. 23, 1848.
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Calendar of Patent Records. Nature 124, 824 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124824b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/124824b0