. Stamp-collector's magazine. ;fcc, in considering thesestamps as special to the two cantons. Weknow what such unanimity is worth: it isannounced, for example, that stamps havebeen issued, say, at Timbuctoo—stampsabout which privately-acquired informationis given; at once, and without questionwhether the news is true or not, the papers,eager for novelty, reproduce the tartare; andlater on, when they change their opinion,lavish invectives on the contemporary whofirst made known their existence. What is true as to the stamps of Tim-buctoo, is equally true in the present first announced t
. Stamp-collector's magazine. ;fcc, in considering thesestamps as special to the two cantons. Weknow what such unanimity is worth: it isannounced, for example, that stamps havebeen issued, say, at Timbuctoo—stampsabout which privately-acquired informationis given; at once, and without questionwhether the news is true or not, the papers,eager for novelty, reproduce the tartare; andlater on, when they change their opinion,lavish invectives on the contemporary whofirst made known their existence. What is true as to the stamps of Tim-buctoo, is equally true in the present first announced that the cantons ofVaud and Neufchatel had emitted was an error, which we hasten to correctwith the proofs in our hands. We have hadthe good luck to acquire a bundle of Swissletters, of the years 1844 to 1850, and alldated from Geneva; and we now give theresults of our examination of them. The canton of Geneva emitted, at thecommencement of the year 1844, the 10-cent Jan. 1, 1869.] THE STAMP-COLLECTORS MAGAZINE. 11. stamp of the annexedtype, for the prepay-ment of letters forthe entire have a specimenused on the 10thMarch, 1844. Theletters posted in the town for the town paid5 centimes, and for such letters one of thetwo stamps, which form together the 10 , was employed. We find, on a letter of the cth October,1845, the 5 cent, poet cantonal printed inblack on apple-green, with the figure 5 thick,and its head slightly bent round; never-theless, it seems the public were allowedstill to use the preceding 5 c. stamp (in-scribed port local), for we observe onedoing duty on a cantonal letter of the 21stJanuary, 1846. This reduction in the ratefrom 10 to 5 centimes necessitated the sup-pression of the 10 c, which, as we see,enjoyed a circulation of only eighteenmonths at most. A letter of the 6th Jan., 1847, acquaints usthat the cantonal 5 c. stamp has a type and shade remain the same, butthe figure 5 is more elongated, and its headis thick a
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