. Stamp-collector's magazine. POSTE LOCALE. Service Mixte. Taxe ixt. I | Taxe Int. I — 110 total. I I in red, and the 2 piastres in blue ink onwhite paper. By means of these stamps,the local post collects the unpaid postage onthe Egyptian letters which it delivers, andits own charge for delivery. English Locals.—-The stamp, of which weappend an illustration, explains itself. Itscolour is green on white, and its design is,perhaps, the mosttasty of any of therailway labels. Thosewho collect these hy-brids will, therefore,find it a welcome ad-dition. A Frenchjournal,in chroniclingthis stamp from
. Stamp-collector's magazine. POSTE LOCALE. Service Mixte. Taxe ixt. I | Taxe Int. I — 110 total. I I in red, and the 2 piastres in blue ink onwhite paper. By means of these stamps,the local post collects the unpaid postage onthe Egyptian letters which it delivers, andits own charge for delivery. English Locals.—-The stamp, of which weappend an illustration, explains itself. Itscolour is green on white, and its design is,perhaps, the mosttasty of any of therailway labels. Thosewho collect these hy-brids will, therefore,find it a welcome ad-dition. A Frenchjournal,in chroniclingthis stamp from hear-say, makes a ludicrousmistake as to its ori-gin. Understandingby the Great Easternunaware that that FWyyWyW^ GREAT EASTEW. RAILWAY^ that it was issuedCompany, and beingname applies equally to the big ship and tothe ci-devant Eastern Counties Railway, thechronicler goes on to inquire—Is it the GreatEastern which, after aiding for a time in theglorious work of laying the transatlanticcable, has been chartered by an Englishcompany for the carriage of circulars ? Wedo not wonder at our neighbours astonish-ment at the idea of the Great Eastern beingemployed to convey Brown, Jones, andRobinsons circulars by the ton, across thewater, for distribution amongst our esteemedfriends on the other side. Such an adver-tising millennium has not yet arrived. We give this month an engraving of astamp fully described in our last newly-issued ar-ticle necessarily containsnotices of all classes ofstamps in any degreepostal; but we mustleave it to our readersindividual judgment todecide whether this andothers of the same na-ture are or are not ad-missible into their albums. Switzerland.—We understand that on
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