ides. On our visit to the Treasury Depart-ment our lady companion asked an old man, who wasbusily engaged with the engravers tools, if his workwas not very injurious to the eyes. I have been atwork at it these fifty years, said he, for I am overseventy years old, and you can judge for… … THE TRANSFERRING PRESS AND ROLLER DIE. plate requires very diverse kinds of skill. One artist has suc-cess with portraits, another with buildings, a third with let-tering, another with ornamental work. No one artist ever en-graves an entire note; several different artists are alwaysemployed to each…
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