. Stamp-collector's magazine. he groundwork is formed of prettily-disposed leaf-work, which does much toimprove the tout-ensemble of the this tolerably exhaustive summary, itonly remains to say that the word postesdoes not appear; that the stamp is on purewhite paper, perforated, but readers, however, will have an oppor-tunity of seeing for themselves what thenew stamp is like, as we believe our pub-lishers intend giving a specimen of the stampitself with the present number. As to the higher values, we can onlyrepeat the information given by our Belgianconfrere,
. Stamp-collector's magazine. he groundwork is formed of prettily-disposed leaf-work, which does much toimprove the tout-ensemble of the this tolerably exhaustive summary, itonly remains to say that the word postesdoes not appear; that the stamp is on purewhite paper, perforated, but readers, however, will have an oppor-tunity of seeing for themselves what thenew stamp is like, as we believe our pub-lishers intend giving a specimen of the stampitself with the present number. As to the higher values, we can onlyrepeat the information given by our Belgianconfrere, to the effect that they bear a verygood and well-executed likeness of thereigning king, Leopold II.; and that theframe of the portrait, which differs for eachvalue, is very well put together. Honourto whom honour is due—M. Hendrickx.—theengraver of the series. France.—After Belgium—proceeding ina south-westerly direction—comes France,and next in importance to the Belgian seriescomes the French five-franc stamp. That. xLruruxj i_n_n_n_ i M. Hulots work should be as near per-fection as we can ever hope to see anything,is not surprising; and yet, in spite of thepatent excellencies of the stamp, we feelinclined to quarrel with it, for the simplereason, that it is, if one shuts ones eyes tothat most necessary inscription in the lowermargin, a bill stamp. In all material pointsit is both of the design and shape of a fiscallabel, only the latter are upright oblongs,and this is a transverse oblong. To makethis stamp, it would seem as if all that hadbeen clone was to turn the emperors head(though certainly its not in every onespower to do that), and to alter the marginalinscriptions. In the bill stamps, the entiremargin is occupied by the inscriptions ; and Dec. 1, 1869.] THE STAMP-COLLECTORS MAGAZINE. 183 the lined spaces, above and below theportrait (or, as it is now placed, on eitherside), bear the value, and the limit of amountwhich is covered by the value, in red i
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