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ther in Fosbroke's Ency. Antiq., 1,386,387. Hoe's rotary ticket-printing machine. Ticket-hold′er. 1. A device to hold a railway ticket in the hat or to the lappel of the coat; or a tag to a bale or package. See tag. 2. A contrivance to attach a card or check to a trunk or parcel. See baggage-check, Fig. 524, page 210. Tick′et Print′ing and Num′ber-ing ma-chine′. A machine for printing and consecutively numbering tickets. The first machine of this kind was invented by Edmondson, in England, about 1840, and was designed to remedy the troublesome practice then in use on railways of stamping and tearing each ticket from a book previous to its delivery to the purchaser. This machine imprinted the date and consecutively numbered the tickets, but was imperfect in its inking arrangements, frequently rendering the tickets illegible. Church and Goddard's machine, introduced subsequently, printed, numbered, cut, counted, and packed the tickets. Pasteboard, cut int