GCHQ library stamp
One of the oddities about old reference books is that, half the time, they turn out to have belonged to some institution or another - for who else would have bought them in the first place? Sometimes, rather esoteric ones. "Property of GCHQ Library", indeed.
You have to wonder quite what use this saw, on a shelf in an office in the middle of the Cold War; it's certainly well-thumbed.
(I am fairly sure the "Restricted" blurb at the top is now obsolete - this book was published four decades ago, after all, and they did discard it! - but it makes the stamp that bit more amusing)
GCHQ library stamp
One of the oddities about old reference books is that, half the time, they turn out to have belonged to some institution or another - for who else would have bought them in the first place? Sometimes, rather esoteric ones. "Property of GCHQ Library", indeed.
You have to wonder quite what use this saw, on a shelf in an office in the middle of the Cold War; it's certainly well-thumbed.
(I am fairly sure the "Restricted" blurb at the top is now obsolete - this book was published four decades ago, after all, and they did discard it! - but it makes the stamp that bit more amusing)