. Stamp-collector's magazine. 1015 2025354050The head brown,orange,blue. „ carmine. „ pale green. „ mauve. „ dark green. is that of the young princeMichael Obrenovich IV., who, if his portraitdoes not natter, has a pleasing and intelligentface. The series, as a whole, is a considerableadvance on its predecessor in type, design,colour, and size, and we may anticipate for ita long currency. The impression is in colour on whitepaper, and perforated, but it is worth whileto notice that the number of dents is notuniform for the entire series, and it is evi-dent that more than one perforating machin
. Stamp-collector's magazine. 1015 2025354050The head brown,orange,blue. „ carmine. „ pale green. „ mauve. „ dark green. is that of the young princeMichael Obrenovich IV., who, if his portraitdoes not natter, has a pleasing and intelligentface. The series, as a whole, is a considerableadvance on its predecessor in type, design,colour, and size, and we may anticipate for ita long currency. The impression is in colour on whitepaper, and perforated, but it is worth whileto notice that the number of dents is notuniform for the entire series, and it is evi-dent that more than one perforating machinehas been used. We have as yet only seenfour of the values ourselves, viz.: the 1, 10,20, and 40 paras; and of these, the 1 parahas 15 dents on the side and 12 at the bot-tom ; the 10 and 20 paras, 15 dents on the Sept. 1, 1869.] THE STAMP-COLLECTORS MAGAZINE. 137. side and 9 at tbe bottom; arid the 40 paras,11 dents on tbe side and 12 at tbe other values probably showing similardifferences. Russia.—Annexed is the promised illustra-tion of the latest-arrived Russian local—the one to whichwe referredlasc notice , in de-scribing thisstamp, givesa reading ofthe inscrip-tion somewhat different to that which wepublished last montb, and if anything makes the translation of the charactersin the outer border to be rural post ofEiSAU-SKi,againstourcorrespondentsRiasancircuit rural post. It will be observedthere is a difference in the name of the townor district after which the post is called. South African Republic.—In anotherpart of the present number wTe give a trans-lation of the decree autho-rising the emission ofstamps for this republic,and some further informa-tion concerning the pro-jected series. This articlewas in type last month, butwas unavoidably crowdedout. Since then, DerBriefmarken Sammler has pu
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