. St. Nicholas [serial] . engraved issues. Such a change occurred in the Portu-guese stamps, the Don Henry issue being lithographed,while the subsequent Vasco da Gama set was latter series was sold in enormous quantities andhas always been popular with collectors. Spain hasrecently entered the list of those issuing commemorationstamps. This nation has honored the three hundredthanniversary of the production of the great satirical work of Don Quixote byMiguel de Cervan-tes with an issue ofstamps. On these maybe seen various inci-dents in the life of theknight as representedin the b
. St. Nicholas [serial] . engraved issues. Such a change occurred in the Portu-guese stamps, the Don Henry issue being lithographed,while the subsequent Vasco da Gama set was latter series was sold in enormous quantities andhas always been popular with collectors. Spain hasrecently entered the list of those issuing commemorationstamps. This nation has honored the three hundredthanniversary of the production of the great satirical work of Don Quixote byMiguel de Cervan-tes with an issue ofstamps. On these maybe seen various inci-dents in the life of theknight as representedin the book. The ideais a new one, and it will be interesting to collectors whohave read the work to identify the pictures on the are ten values from five centimos to ten lower values will be easily secured in uncanceledcondition and the two high values will probably be easyto get canceled. The workmanship is not good, the pro-cess being lithography and there being little attemptmade to produce fine JAPANESE STAMPS. THE chrysanthemum is the imperial flower, used asheraldic emblems are employed by western nations,and in the conventionalized form is seen upon the stampsissued since 1872. The number of petals is the emperorsown, sixteen, which may not be used by any subject ofthe Mikado, but is used as the state coat of arms. Con-siderable variety maybe seen in the forms of the flowerupon various issues of stamps. The changes which aretaking place in the East as a result of the complete tri-umph of the Japanese arms will make the stamps of allcountries with which these active people have to do in-teresting to collectors. Changes may be expected inthe issues that are now in use along the whole coast ofAsia, although just where and how those changes willcome no one can tell. It is not probable that the stampsissued by western nations having colonies in that partof the world will be affected so quickly or to such anextent as the stamps of those nations whose h
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