The Saturday evening post . Hungary, not to be outdone by her largerneighbor, announces an issue of leathermoney. In view of the present price ofshoes, gloves and traveling bags, it is nothard to believe that this will be a soundcurrency; but the cabled dispatches saythat the money is merely to be printed onleather. Pigskin is the chosen material,and it has been said in its favor that it isexceedingly difficult to counterfeit. Itshould not, however, offer insuperable ob-stacles to an American manufacturer ofleather goods. An old trick of the trade is to makeelectrotype dies by covering genuine
The Saturday evening post . Hungary, not to be outdone by her largerneighbor, announces an issue of leathermoney. In view of the present price ofshoes, gloves and traveling bags, it is nothard to believe that this will be a soundcurrency; but the cabled dispatches saythat the money is merely to be printed onleather. Pigskin is the chosen material,and it has been said in its favor that it isexceedingly difficult to counterfeit. Itshould not, however, offer insuperable ob-stacles to an American manufacturer ofleather goods. An old trick of the trade is to makeelectrotype dies by covering genuine pig-skin with black lead and plating on a thindeposit of copper. The electrotype isthen backed to give it solidity. Cowhide stamped with such a die soclosely resembles pigskin as to deceive thevery elect. Only small bills will be printed upon pig-skin. Notes of larger denomination will beprinted upon a very high grade of silk paperto be obtained from the silken wall cover-ings of the old palaces with which THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 41
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