. Stamp-collector's magazine. own of the recent discoveries is that of litho-graphed Spanish stamps, announced by in Le Timbropliile, from which wetake the following account. The first series belonged to the officialtype of 1855, of which an illustration isappended. The ordinarykind is engraved, but forsome reason which it is im-possible to determine, acertain number were litho-graphed. All that are knownare obliterated, and the ob-literations consist of—1, pa-rallel bars in the form of a gridiron; 2, ahand-stamp bearing the date and the wordssta. cruz, indicating the p
. Stamp-collector's magazine. own of the recent discoveries is that of litho-graphed Spanish stamps, announced by in Le Timbropliile, from which wetake the following account. The first series belonged to the officialtype of 1855, of which an illustration isappended. The ordinarykind is engraved, but forsome reason which it is im-possible to determine, acertain number were litho-graphed. All that are knownare obliterated, and the ob-literations consist of—1, pa-rallel bars in the form of a gridiron; 2, ahand-stamp bearing the date and the wordssta. cruz, indicating the place where it wasaffixed ; 3, an oval divided into four parts bytwo diagonal lines, with a large spot in thecentre; and, 4, an oval divided by linesinto lozenges, with stars at the intersections,a mode of obliteration supposed, but in-correctly, to be peculiar to Porto Rico;it being only found on the stamps speciallyfor Lucon and the mother country. The paper is of almost the same colouras the well-known stamps of 1855, and. 44 THE STAMP-COLLECTORS MAGAZINE. [March 1, 1866. the values are the same, \ onza, yellow; 1onza, rose ; 4 onzas, green ; and 1 libra, blue. The design is distinguished by its coarse-ness. The exterior oval is irregular andbroken; the pearls of the crown aresmaller. The collar of the order of theGolden Fleece is less distinct. The ovalsurrounding the shield is formed of smalllines irregularly traced, and the horizontalline running across the shield is heraldic emblems are very roughlydrawn, and the fleurs-de-lys in the centreare hardly visible. The inscription also offers some distinctivecharacteristics: the words CORREO Oficialare traced in an uneven line instead ofbeing placed so as to follow gracefully theshape of the exterior oval, and the wordONZA or libra almost touches the oval. Thewhole indicates a rough imitation of thehome stamps. These stamps being purely administrativeand without monetary value, there was noreason for their being
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