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PAPER AND ITS USES

dustproof tendency. Cloth-lined and cloth-surfaced boards are used for club cards, being very durable and folding well. The white side should always be the inside.

Wholesale stationers keep a large and varied stock of cut cards, plain, round cornered, gilt edged, embossed, plate sunk, with fancy borders and fancy surfaces. A list of stock sizes will be found on page 140, but this list does not refer to every variety of card. Some kinds, such as ivory cards, are stocked in all the regular visiting and business card sizes and multiples of the same, and others in the usual ticket and correspondence card sizes. Reference to the stock book of any maker will serve as a guide in ordering for stock or for special purposes. Post-cards, plain and with printed fronts, are procurable in a variety of qualities, and often prove very useful to small printers.

The standard size for boards of all kinds is royal, 25 inches x 20 inches.