Treasury tag

{{short description|Type of stationery/fastener}}

{{use British English|date=June 2016}}

Image:Box of HMSO India tags.jpg India tags, now also known as Treasury tags]]

A treasury tag,{{cite web|url=http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/treasury-tag|title=treasury tag - definitions|work=Collins Dictionary|publisher=HarperCollins|accessdate=28 June 2016}} India tag,{{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/india-tag|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150831161153/http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/India-tag|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 31, 2015|title=India tag - definition of India tag in English from the Oxford dictionary|work=OxfordDictionaries.com|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2016|accessdate=28 June 2016}} or string tag{{Cite web |last=International Baccalaureate Organization |date=2017 |title=The conduct of IB Diploma Programme examinations |url=https://www3.dpcdsb.org/STFXS/Documents/2017_The_conduct_of_IB_Diploma_Programme_examinati.pdf |access-date=2022-05-20 |website=Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board}} is an item of stationery used to fasten sheets of paper together or to a folder. It consists of a short length of string, with metal or plastic cross-pieces at each end that are orthogonal to the string. They are threaded through holes in paper or card made with a hole punch or lawyers bodkin or electric drill, and the cross-pieces are sufficiently wide as to not slip back through the holes.Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211209/s1EmZOt8Pno Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20190414212635/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1EmZOt8Pno Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite AV media| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1EmZOt8Pno| title = T-Tag Treasury Tags - The Modern Treasury Tag | website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}

The names Treasury tag and India tag are first found on record in a list of stationery items published by His Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) in 1912, and, both being capitalised, probably refer to HM Treasury and the India Office.{{cite book|title=List of Articles Authorised to be Supplied by H.M.S.O.|publisher=Her Majesty's Stationery Office|year=1912}}{{cite web|url=http://www.paperstone.co.uk/desktop-essentials/office-pins-clips-bands/treasury-tags/l-642|title=Treasury Tags at Paperstone|publisher=Paperstone Ltd|year=2016|accessdate=28 June 2016}} While the terms are now equivalent, a Treasury tag was originally a lace with a sharp metal tag at one end, which could be threaded through the holes in a stack of documents or cards and inserted into a corresponding tag at the other end, thus forming a loop and binding the documents. The tags, in that case, were in line with the string, similar to aglets on a shoelace.