. Stamp-collector's magazine. features do the designs, but paper takes theplace of skin, and the new-comers are per-forated. The colours also are changed, the10 groschen now appears in sober grey, andthe 30 groschen in a much brighter examining the design, we find the follow-ing differences: the inscription preussengives place to norddeutscher post bezirk,and step,. GR. to groschen; and the finely-drawn Prussian eagle, which adorns theborders of the old, give place to littlerosettes or florets in the new. There isone alteration perceptible in the new stampswhich will be very unwelcome
. Stamp-collector's magazine. features do the designs, but paper takes theplace of skin, and the new-comers are per-forated. The colours also are changed, the10 groschen now appears in sober grey, andthe 30 groschen in a much brighter examining the design, we find the follow-ing differences: the inscription preussengives place to norddeutscher post bezirk,and step,. GR. to groschen; and the finely-drawn Prussian eagle, which adorns theborders of the old, give place to littlerosettes or florets in the new. There isone alteration perceptible in the new stampswhich will be very unwelcome to collectors,and that is, they are obliterated with the 72 THE STAMP-COLLECTORS MAGAZINE. [May 1, 1869. post-office clerks signature, and the date,written across the face of the stamps. Con-cluding our notice, we must, not omit tomention that the impression is on whitereaper, and that the two stamps were issuedon the 1st of March. We have had lent us a specimen of thecurrent 2 gr. adhesive, purporting to be avariety, but whi
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