. Stamp-collector's magazine. reduced copy.^The 1 kop. yellow, and 5 , are the only values as yet known topossess this addition, but no doubt the othersare, or will shortly be, impressed on the newpaper. Spain.—Of the four new stamps describedlast month, three being mere reproductionsof a former type, the re-maining fourth is the onlyone of which it is neces-sary to give an illustra-tion. The latter appearsto have been the first ofthe series in point of time,M. Moens has seen aspecimen postmarked 20December, 18(38 ; whilst, so far as can beknown, the others only saw light on New-Years
. Stamp-collector's magazine. reduced copy.^The 1 kop. yellow, and 5 , are the only values as yet known topossess this addition, but no doubt the othersare, or will shortly be, impressed on the newpaper. Spain.—Of the four new stamps describedlast month, three being mere reproductionsof a former type, the re-maining fourth is the onlyone of which it is neces-sary to give an illustra-tion. The latter appearsto have been the first ofthe series in point of time,M. Moens has seen aspecimen postmarked 20December, 18(38 ; whilst, so far as can beknown, the others only saw light on New-Years day. As showing a movement towards theabolition of the Queens-head type, it isworth while to chronicle the emission of anew telegraph stamp—400 mil.,—showingfor device the arms of Castile, Leon, Arragon,Navarre, and Granada, quartered on a shield,and surmounted by a mural (not a royal)crown. Something like this we shall pro-bably see ere long on the postage stamps. Ceylon.—We are now able to give anengraving of the t
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