. Stamp-collector's magazine. style and execution of their South Americanorigin. The values are three :—1 real red(for home postage) ; 2 reales green; and4 reales blue (for foreign letters). Spain.—Our readers will probably not besurprised to hear that anew series has been emittedS for this country. But theymay be surprised to hearwhat, according to a foreignjournalist, is the cause ofthe annual change whichnow seems to be the esta-blished rule at the Madridpost-office. He points out that the onlydifference between the portrait on this andon last years set is in the arrangementof the hair; and
. Stamp-collector's magazine. style and execution of their South Americanorigin. The values are three :—1 real red(for home postage) ; 2 reales green; and4 reales blue (for foreign letters). Spain.—Our readers will probably not besurprised to hear that anew series has been emittedS for this country. But theymay be surprised to hearwhat, according to a foreignjournalist, is the cause ofthe annual change whichnow seems to be the esta-blished rule at the Madridpost-office. He points out that the onlydifference between the portrait on this andon last years set is in the arrangementof the hair; and states that it is the ir-resolution of the Queen in the choice of acoiffure, which obliges the Spanish govern-ment to change the stamps annually. Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,must be Queen Isabella, and sad the trials ofher hair-dresser. Another explanation wasonce offered to us by a Spanish gentleman:viz., that the periodical alteration arose from ayearning on the part of the postal authoritiesto emit a perfect ty
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