. Stamp-collector's magazine. greatestrarity—many collectors have never evenseen one. The yellow Mercuries are rathermore common. They are, as well as thedeep-red ones, seldom postmarked, the minorpost-offices having, in spite of repeated in-structions, generally omitted to obliteratethem. Genuine specimens of this deep-redMercury have hitherto, but erroneously, beencondemned as forgeries, both by dealers andcollectors. We presume both this and the blue becameobsolete in 1858, when the emperors head?was substituted for the imperial arms on theother postage stamps. In conclusion, be it understo
. Stamp-collector's magazine. greatestrarity—many collectors have never evenseen one. The yellow Mercuries are rathermore common. They are, as well as thedeep-red ones, seldom postmarked, the minorpost-offices having, in spite of repeated in-structions, generally omitted to obliteratethem. Genuine specimens of this deep-redMercury have hitherto, but erroneously, beencondemned as forgeries, both by dealers andcollectors. We presume both this and the blue becameobsolete in 1858, when the emperors head?was substituted for the imperial arms on theother postage stamps. In conclusion, be it understood that theso-called Austrian stamps for foreign news-papers received from a foreign country,1 kr. black, 2 kr. green, brown, or red, 4 or red, and 1 kr. blue, are not post-age stamps, but simply stamps stuck onnewspapers arriving from foreign parts, toshow that the duty has been duly paid forthem. They have no business in a collectionof postage stamps, and ought to be thrownaway. NEWLY-ISSUED ORSTAMPS. INED1TED. Our paper on novelties was so amply enrichedlast month, that but little additional matterin that way can be reasonably expected to beforthcoming now. There seems, even in theabsence of any positively new appearance,however, something always noticeable withrespect to individuals slightly mentioned andnot fully described or figured, so that ourreaders need never fear that we shall have toomit our monthly article for lack of —One of the envelopes lately is-sued for the use of the republic of Uruguay,forms our first illustration. They werefirst mentioned so long since as in our num-ber for August. Thegeneral design, as will beseen on comparison, is thesame as lor the labels,with a difference. Beingcircular in lieu of rect-angular, the inscriptionencompasses the figure ofvalue. The armorial bear-ings are alike, but the place of the sixty-sixminute repetitions of value is, with greaterelegance, if less singularity, hlled up bythe rays of the risin
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