. Stamp-collector's magazine. otice as an improvement theputting of the wrord five in full. Fiveshillings looks a great deal better than5 shillings. The head has also been en-graved specially for the Trinidad stamp. Itis larger than any other we have seen, andthe crown is differently formed. The im-pression is in a warm rich colour, a kind oflake-brown, on white paper, perforated, andbearing the crown and c C watermark. Thisand the other 5s. stamps are especially forthe use of commercial men. They prepaythe heavy packages which are forwardedhome every mail by large colonial houses;and as they
. Stamp-collector's magazine. otice as an improvement theputting of the wrord five in full. Fiveshillings looks a great deal better than5 shillings. The head has also been en-graved specially for the Trinidad stamp. Itis larger than any other we have seen, andthe crown is differently formed. The im-pression is in a warm rich colour, a kind oflake-brown, on white paper, perforated, andbearing the crown and c C watermark. Thisand the other 5s. stamps are especially forthe use of commercial men. They prepaythe heavy packages which are forwardedhome every mail by large colonial houses;and as they must produce notable economyof time over the low values, they will, nodoubt, be extensively patronised by the classfor whom they are intended. Russia.—The 5 kop. envelope, which hasbeen in use for St. Petersburg during so manyyears, has at length beensuperseded by the annexedtype. This new arrival is aclean-looking stamp, butrather unsubstantial. It iswanting in body, andseems like an unfinished,but promising, sketch. It is. printed in a reddish violet on the left-handcorner of the envelope, which is of smallsize. The Russian local stamp, for the districtof Bogorodsk, which we described in ourMay number, is here represented. No further
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