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Muntz George Frederick (1794-1857)

Muntz was involved, but as a political champion, not the inventor.
1852, Mr. Muntz (MP for Birmingham) moved for a select committee to examine Henry Archer’s new perforating machine for postage labels and the way the Inland Revenue had dealt with Archer. The debate text names Muntz and summarises his case for adopting perforation.
 
from Hansard 16 March 1852
MR. MUNTZ
said, he rose to move for a Committee to inquire into the agreement entered into between the Commissioners of Inland Revenue and the patentee of the machine for perforating the sheets of postage labels. In the year 1847 a Mr. Archer discovered and patented an invention for perforating the interstices of postage stamps, which did away with the use of a knife or scissors in separating them, and offered his invention to the Post Office, the Commissioners of Stamps, and the Board of Inland Revenue,

After a lot of debate
Select Committee appointed, "to inquire and report upon the present mode of engraving, printing, and gumming the Postage Label Stamps; and likewise whether and how the perforating machine, invented by the Patentee, could be applied to the same with advantage to the Public."

If you want to read it all then
 
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