. Stamp-collector's magazine. -rate is due to the fact thathis engravers could notsee it to advantage, andM. Moens himself admitsthat it is hardly visible, and that he hasheard doubts expressed as to its way of confirmation he says that he findsthe same watermark, which appears to him tobe rather a kind of network than a series ofundulating lines, on all the new telegraphstamps. Vfe for our part have not had theopportunity of examining any recent copiesof the two postage stamps he mentions, butwe have made a most careful inspection oftheir telegraphic brethren, and must confesswe f
. Stamp-collector's magazine. -rate is due to the fact thathis engravers could notsee it to advantage, andM. Moens himself admitsthat it is hardly visible, and that he hasheard doubts expressed as to its way of confirmation he says that he findsthe same watermark, which appears to him tobe rather a kind of network than a series ofundulating lines, on all the new telegraphstamps. Vfe for our part have not had theopportunity of examining any recent copiesof the two postage stamps he mentions, butwe have made a most careful inspection oftheir telegraphic brethren, and must confesswe find on them no trace of the allegedwatermark. Should our readers be moresuccessful than ourselves, we will thankthem to send us any stamps on which theymay discern it, and we shall then be happyto recognise its existence; meanwhile we canbut consider our Belgian friends eyesight asfor once in fault. Sarawak.—In the September number ofThe Philatelist we find the following remarksrespecting the sole value in use in the Rajahs. dominions, which we extract for the benefitof the sceptical :— In the month of September, 1868, wefirst presented the cut of a stamp which,although duly certified to ourselves on un-doubted authority, has ever since beenignored, and scarcely even deemed worthy of a sentence condemnation, so deter- mined appeared every philatelic amateur topooh-pooh it. With the stamp in question bodily pre-sent, and regularly postmarked on a letter,side by side with a 24 cents of the StraitsSettlements, all doubt and derision are oncefor all at an end. A private letter fromSarawak states that the single adhesiveissued is current there only, thus beingstrictly local. A copy of the governmentregulations respecting these latest noveltiesis appended, by which it will be seen thatthe individuals are used indiscriminately aspostals or fiscals. GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. On aDd after the 1st of March, 1869, the following ruleswill come into force:— POSTAGE. On all letters not
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