A process rarely, but historically used for stamps, in which the design is cut by a diamond point through a gum film on the stone’s surface. A greasy lithographic ink is dabbed into the exposed lines, and is held by the stone. For printing from the finished stone a dabber is used instead of an ink roller, the surface of the stone being kept wet so that the ink is left only where the design is, and the impression is then made on paper. Among the few instances of stamps produced in this way are the first stamp of New Caledonia, 1860, and the locally made Trinidad, 1852-60.