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PAPER IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



It is comparatively easy to do work with one color; but when 

 there are several colors in a pattern and the paper must be applied 

 to several stones or blocks, one for each color, as in lithography, 

 there is difficulty in making it ' ' register " correctly. The thin papers 

 have a tendency to expand and contract irregularly each time they 

 are moistened and dried. This, of course, leaves a blurred impres- 

 sion on the paper. To obviate this, one mill has invented a paper 

 composed of three layers or folds, which has been applied to as many 

 as twenty stones with satisfactory results. The tissue, with a layer 

 of dry size, is gummed to a strong backing, the gum being of such 

 consistency as to hold the two together during the printing and to 

 allow the tissue with its complete pattern to be stripped from the 

 backing and applied to the pottery as if it had but one color. 



The following table shows the declared price per ream of unsized 

 printing papers shipped from the Tunstall consular district to the 

 United States during the year 1898: 



The total exports of paper from this district to the United States 

 for the year 1898 amounted to $7,568.88. 



Our manufactured articles should be introduced here by the same 

 means that would be adopted at home. Bright salesmen must spend 

 time and money to teach the people that they want the goods. The 

 pottery trade, notwithstanding the fact that there are agencies in 

 the United States, send over every year an army of salesmen, who 

 go as far as San Francisco, and seem to make profitable trips. 



WM. HARRISON BRADLEY, 



TUNSTALL, June 6, 1899. Consul. 



