The stamp-collector's review and monthly advertiser . engraving of the 25 reis will doubt-less prove of interest to our readers. A more fitting instance of the useof stamp collecting, as an aid to thestudy of history, can hardly be foundthan in the stamps emanating fromthe Sandwich Islands. Eighty-fouryears have elapsed since the deathof Captain Cook on the shores ofOwhyhee, at which time the nativesof that and the surrounding isleswere blood-thirsty anthropophagi;but since that time, we find, throughthe exertions of the missionaries,that the islanders have embraced theChristian religion, and
The stamp-collector's review and monthly advertiser . engraving of the 25 reis will doubt-less prove of interest to our readers. A more fitting instance of the useof stamp collecting, as an aid to thestudy of history, can hardly be foundthan in the stamps emanating fromthe Sandwich Islands. Eighty-fouryears have elapsed since the deathof Captain Cook on the shores ofOwhyhee, at which time the nativesof that and the surrounding isleswere blood-thirsty anthropophagi;but since that time, we find, throughthe exertions of the missionaries,that the islanders have embraced theChristian religion, and not a stonehas been left unturned to promotethe welfare of the recognised kingdomof Hawaii, even to the introductionof the postal system and its interest-ing appendages—postage stamps. The Eussian stamps were noticedin our last paper, as among the mostbeautiful on account of their being. printed in two colours. We givean engraving of the 20 kop. FORGED STAMPS: HOW TODETECT THEM, BY EDWAKD PEMBEBTON. XIII. MOLDAVIA. We have lately received from Brus-sels forgeries of the oldest series ofMoldavia. We are unable to give 70 THE STAMP-COLLECTORS REVIEW. minute descriptions of them, notbeing able to procure genuine copiesto compare them with, but the fol-lowing details have been furnishedby a gentleman who possesses —Bulls head, over horncontaining value, with words portoscrisorei (?) round; 54 paras, blueimpression on green paper; 81 paras,blue impression on blue paper; 108paras, blue impression on pink these forgeries the head is slightlydifferent in each stamp, the hornsin the 54 paras are curved inwards,in the 81 paras outwards, and in the108 paras are nearly straight. Thering of the horn containing the 54 isshort and thick, that of the 81 shortand thin, and that of the 108 is longand thin. The forgeries are veryclearly and neatly executed, whereast
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