Jeff, smauggie hasn't jumped back in yet, so here is the one I use (more or less...mine is ten years old, so it has changed a bit in the intervening years):
They've dropped in price to around $100-125. If you search "Mitutoyo" on Google or Amazon, you'll find all kinds of digital solutions.
A Micrometer. An analog version of cjd's digital one (where you have to do math to figure out the measurement instead of just reading it off an LCD screen).
Gibbons also notes that the thin paper version is on 'white Harrison paper instead of the toned paper used for' the thick paper version. Should be obvious placed alongside a thick paper 5/- Arms.
Well, 0.003 inches translates directly to 0.0762 mm. So I think I am safe in saying it is thin paper. Since Scott catalogs do not even recognize that there is a thin paper version of this stamp, my SG Australia catalog has already "paid" for itself.
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Posted 04/17/2011 8:45 pm
