The stamp-collector's review and monthly advertiser . the distance;lettering below, Mauritius; im-pressed in colour upon white paper. 42 THE STAMP-COLLECTORS REVIEW. [March 15,1864. rectangular; vermilion, dark green,crimson-lake, slate. Yarieties. — Dark green, with Fourpence printed in black letterson the stamp; slate, with Eight-pence, as above. Type II.—Queens head to theleft; lettering: Postage at top,value at bottom, Post Paid onthe left side, and Mauritius onthe right. (1.) Lettering large, Queen witha diadem, back-ground of obliquelines, impressed in colour upon bluepaper, rectangular;
The stamp-collector's review and monthly advertiser . the distance;lettering below, Mauritius; im-pressed in colour upon white paper. 42 THE STAMP-COLLECTORS REVIEW. [March 15,1864. rectangular; vermilion, dark green,crimson-lake, slate. Yarieties. — Dark green, with Fourpence printed in black letterson the stamp; slate, with Eight-pence, as above. Type II.—Queens head to theleft; lettering: Postage at top,value at bottom, Post Paid onthe left side, and Mauritius onthe right. (1.) Lettering large, Queen witha diadem, back-ground of obliquelines, impressed in colour upon bluepaper, rectangular; one penny, red,twopence, blue. Yariety. — On yellowish paper;one penny, vermilion. (2.) Lettering smaller, Queenshead with a plain band (or fillet) inplace of the diadem of the last stamp;head is different, and the whole stampindistinct, (Moens Catalogue says,nearly invisible;) impressed incolour upon blue paper, rectangular. Yariety 1.—Ground of uprightlines; twopence, blue. Yariety 2. — Ground of crossedoblique lines; one penny, reddish. yellow ; twopence, dark blue. Yariety 3.—Ground of upright,horizontal, and crossed oblique lines;twopence, blue. Yariety 4.—As last, but even ruder in the engraving, and worseprinted; twopence, blue. Type III.—Queens head to theleft, with diadem on a solid groundand Greek bordering sides; lettering:Mauritius above, value below,
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