. Stamp-collector's magazine. n centre. We could not vouch for their authen-ticity then, and have since received no evidence to provethey are other than impostors. Subscriber.—You cau have your magazine for lastyear bound in a handsome cloth cover, by forwardingthem, with a remittance of 2/6, to our publishers, Queen-square House, Bath. Feb. 1, 1866.] THE STAMP-COLLECTORS MAGAZINE. 17 POSTAGE-STAMP PAPER & WATER-MARKS. {Continued from page 7). § 2nd. Watermarks in belong to two very distinct the first, the watermark consists of asingle design, the details of which exten
. Stamp-collector's magazine. n centre. We could not vouch for their authen-ticity then, and have since received no evidence to provethey are other than impostors. Subscriber.—You cau have your magazine for lastyear bound in a handsome cloth cover, by forwardingthem, with a remittance of 2/6, to our publishers, Queen-square House, Bath. Feb. 1, 1866.] THE STAMP-COLLECTORS MAGAZINE. 17 POSTAGE-STAMP PAPER & WATER-MARKS. {Continued from page 7). § 2nd. Watermarks in belong to two very distinct the first, the watermark consists of asingle design, the details of which extendover a large portion of each sheet of paperemployed. The result is, that various por-tions of the pattern are met with on eachseparate stamp, according to its situation ;sometimes even no trace of the watermarkcan be detected, especially if the device be alarge one, such as happens in the Indianstamps. On the sheet of the half-annablue, first series, is found the original of thecut subjoined. The inscription in Indian. characters in the lower portion of the ovalis incompletely represented, our sheet beingimperfect. We shall indicate all the different water-marks we have met with; but it cannot beexpected that some few may not have escapedour notice. In the second variety of watermark it isnot made up of one large device, but by aconcatenation of small ones, which are foundreproduced on every stamp. It must be un-derstood that their fabrication is not sosufficiently adjusted as to present the markprecisely in the middle of the stamp; asmall portion of two, or a larger of one de-vice only being at times observable. A ci-pher is not infrequently reversed, showing a6 instead of a 9; and sometimes a paperprepared for one value is used by mistakefor another. Great difficulty often arises in detectingsome watermarks. True as it is that they may be seen on holding the specimen up tothe light, we have always ascertained themmore clearly by placing the stamp on some-thing black. In t
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