. St. Nicholas [serial] . first design. In the center is the old Austrian eagle,so familiar to us on many of the earlier stamps ofthis country. The 15-heller, bister. 2S-hel!er, pur-ple, and 6o-heller, olive, are of the second , under the inscription, is a post-horn with cordand tassels. The 20-heller, green, 40-heller, car-mine, and so-heller, blue, are of the third The central design here consists of a masculine fig-ure, clad in an apron-like garment, one knee uponthe ground, and apparently engaged in planting atree. The workmanship is not at all fine, and theset does not p
. St. Nicholas [serial] . first design. In the center is the old Austrian eagle,so familiar to us on many of the earlier stamps ofthis country. The 15-heller, bister. 2S-hel!er, pur-ple, and 6o-heller, olive, are of the second , under the inscription, is a post-horn with cordand tassels. The 20-heller, green, 40-heller, car-mine, and so-heller, blue, are of the third The central design here consists of a masculine fig-ure, clad in an apron-like garment, one knee uponthe ground, and apparently engaged in planting atree. The workmanship is not at all fine, and theset does not particularly appeal to us. We illustrate also one of the recent stamps of thenew nation of Finland, or Suomi. Under an agree-ment with Russia, the province of Finland issued adistinctive series of stamps. These sometimes hadvalues in Russian, sometimes in Finnish Finland is independent, yet, curiously enovigh,her stamps bear no indication as to whetherthey represent the Russian kopec or the Finnishpennia. Undoubtedly it is the pennia, but one wouldhave thought the joy of freedom would have name of the coin upon the stamp. The generaldesign is neat and attractive. Last of all, but by no means least,is the new Peace series of theBahamas. Stamps of the BritishColonies are always a pleasure toown because of the excellence ofthe workmanship and the clearness
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