. Stamp-collector's magazine. ps which have justbeen issued for this whole design is inrelief. The colours andvalues are, fourpence darkbrown, and sixpence darkblue. Prince Edward Island.—With the ap-pearance of the new value for this islandmany of our readers must be already awareby this time. Still, for regularitys sake, wemust not omit our usualpractice of giving anillustration. Here, then,^ is the fruit of the PrinceEdward Island engraversskill and ingenuity, fromwhich it will be evidentthat he has not yet at-tained the ne plus ultrapoint. For our part, whenever we look atthe si
. Stamp-collector's magazine. ps which have justbeen issued for this whole design is inrelief. The colours andvalues are, fourpence darkbrown, and sixpence darkblue. Prince Edward Island.—With the ap-pearance of the new value for this islandmany of our readers must be already awareby this time. Still, for regularitys sake, wemust not omit our usualpractice of giving anillustration. Here, then,^ is the fruit of the PrinceEdward Island engraversskill and ingenuity, fromwhich it will be evidentthat he has not yet at-tained the ne plus ultrapoint. For our part, whenever we look atthe side embellishments of this design, wecannot help thinking of the marvellous orna-mental letters which it was the custom inour young days to print at school, and whichwere very frequently distinguished by justsuch diamonds as appear on the stamp. Antioquia.—Advices received by a lateSouth American mail state that the peacefulcitizens of that abode of bliss, New Granada,are again in a state of agitation, this time EggEIJH3gi. CO THE STAMP-COLLECTORS MAGAZINE. [June 1, 1869. it is Antioquia that is trying to cast off theyoke of the Republic, not caring, we maypresume, to the union in theirold age. We do not know how far these oppressedpeople have succeeded in their attempt torun alone, but conclude that the revolutionhas acted as a prelude to the emission ofpostage labels. However that may be, thereare the stamps, and it is our pleasing dutyto describe them. They partake somewhat of the type of thelast issue for the Granadine Republic, andare five in number :— 2J centavos, ,, light green. 10 „ mauve. 20 ,, chocolate. 1 peso, dark rose. In an oval are the arms of Colombia,surmounted by the typical nine stars, andencircled by the inscription E. s. antioquia ;ee. uu. de Colombia. At the top of eachlabel is the word correos, and at foot isgiven the value. A rather novel method of placing thefigures has been adopted in the lowest the right-hand upper corn
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