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THE

Stamp-Collector's Magazine.

ILLUSTRATED.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

E. MARLBOROUGH & CO., AVE MARIA LANE.

BATH:

STAFFORD SMITH & SMITH, THE FOREIGN STAMP AND CREST DEPÔT.

MDCCCLXIV.

INDEX TO VOL. II.

Where only name of country is given, its stamps are intended to be indicated.

ABUSES of the Letter Franking system, 73
Accumulation, Extraordinary, of Postage Stamps, 36
Addenda to Mount Brown's Catalogue, 87, 99, 119, 138,
151, 167

Albany Bazaar Post-office Stamp, 185

Answers to Correspondents, 16, 32, 47, 63, 79, 96, 111,
128, 144, 160, 176, 192

Argentine, 72, 180; forged. 101; new series, 137
Australian Stamps, Notes on the, 134

Austria, complementary stamp, 48; forged Zeitungs, 67;
forged head of Mercury, 79, 90; 174

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Canada, 153, 192; buff envelopes, 184; local, 185

Cape of Good Hope, 16; new issue, 39, 120; on tinted
paper, 191; shilling blue, 112; fourpenny black, 128
Central Fair, 137, 175, 192

Ceylon, 48, 136, 191

Chili Stamp, head on, 80, 180

Chit-Chat Postal, 77, 94, 109, 125, 142, 158, 173
Confederate States, 9, 40, 48, 73, 106; blockade stamp, 184
Connell Essay, 25, 64, 89

Corrientes, 85, 136, 180; city of, 86
Costa Rica, 57, 72

Continental Stamps and Stamp Countries, Jabez Jones's
Recollections of, 97, 113, 129, 145, 161, 177
Correspondence, 30, 46, 61, 78, 95, 111, 127, 143, 160, 173,
188; the five Rs applied to postage stamps, 30; the
Paraguayan essay, 30; the Prince Consort essays, 31,
46, 78, 95, 111, 127; the threepenny New Zealand
stamp, 31; Mr. Hussey and the American stamp
usually designated Bighead,' 31; the Editor's reply
to Fentonia, 46; the portrait on the Mexican stamp,
61; how to prevent the sale of forged stamps, 61;
Dr. Gray on the Prince Consort essays, 78; Austrian
and Swiss stamp forgeries, 79; the Holstein stamp,

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79; dealers' black list, 79; the Sydney postage
stamps, 79; Mr. Burn's reply to Dr. Gray on the
Prince Albert essays, 95; prosecution of stamp
forgers, 111; questionable stamps, 111; Oppen's
stamp album, 111; the British Guiana newspaper
stamps, 127, 143, 175; the Hamburg locals, 128;
about essays in general, 143; the United States'
Inter. Rev. stamps, 143; the Livonian stamps, 144;
Brigham Young's denial of the existence of a Mor-
mon stamp, 144; the tenpenny stamp of Van
Diemen's Land, 160; reply to No Essays,' 160;
an uncatalogued Buenos Ayres stamp, 160; Pember-
ton on essays, &c., 173; Swiss stamp forgeries, 174;
the Central Fair stamps, 175; McRobish & Co.'s
Acupulco and San Francisco' stamps, 175; the
Hamburg imitation stamps, 176; Pemberton's cor-
rections and criticisms, 188; the Prince Consort
essays again, 189; concerning essays, 189; old
Swiss stamps and essays, 190; impressions on blue
paper, 191; the New South Wales stamps, 191; can
forgers of stamps be prosecuted? 191; the penny
Ceylon adhesive stamps, 191; United States Central
Fair stamps, 192; the South Germany gulden and
the Austrian florin, 192

Correspondents, answers to, 16, 32, 47, 63, 79, 96, 111,
128, 144, 160, 176, 192

Country Postman, The, 126

Curiosities of the Post Bag, 126

Current Stamp Forgeries, 67, 89, 100, 154, 182

Danish West Indies, 176

Denmark, 105, 170; forged, 155

Egyptian Postage Stamps, 25

English envelope stamp, 96, 149; penny adhesive, 104;

on blue paper, 191

Envelope stamps, Notes on,

149

Essays in general, 143; meaning of the word, 174
Extraordinary accumulation of postage stamps, 36

Finland, 121 forged, 68, 155; envelopes, 149

Five Rs applied to Postage Stamps, 30; answered, 46, 62
Forgeries, Current Stamp, 67, 89, 100, 154, 182
France, Ancient Posts of, 23; Colonies, 25, 146; 1 franc
green, 96; essay, 105, 170; bon-bon stamp, 113;
newspaper stamp, 158

General Pest Office at Six o'Clock, 38
Geneva, double 5 c., 62; envelope, 80
German Princes and Postage Stamps, 2
Greece (Essays), 73, 88, 104, 190; forged, 155

Hamburg, 57, 73; forged, 155, 176; boten, 62, 96, 112, 128;
local, 121

Hanover, 9, 112; net-work series, 105; envelopes, 150;
Bestelgeld-frei, 25, 158

History of my Stamp Album, 1, 17, 33, 49, 65, 81
History of Postal Communications, 7, 23, 35, 69

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Jerusalem Postage Stamps, 158

La Guaira, 121, 137, 169, 184
Langton's Pioneer Express, 160

Liability of Postage Stamps to Fraudulent Re-issue, 13
Liberia, 115; forged, 155'

Lines for The Stamp-Collector's Magazine, 46

Livonia, 10, 24; geographical position, 144; new issue,
170, 185

London Parcels Delivery Company, 137, 144

Lubeck, 4; forged, 69; new issue, 73, 88; 4 sch. black, 111
Luxemburg, 19

Luzon, 105; obsolete, 184

Magazine, to the Young Readers of the, 29
Mauritius, 24, 40, 160; native stamps, 110
McRobish's Acapulco stamp, 73, 175
Mecklenburg-Strelitz, 168

Mexico, portrait on, 44, 61; Aztec posts, 70; essays for,

104; new issue, 120; names stamped on side, 173

Modena, 91, 112; tassa gazette, 155, 173

Moldavia and Wallachia, 41, 51, 82, 106

Monte Video, 89, 180; blue, 176; diligencia, 181

Montreal, local, 185

Morality of Postage Stamps, 92

Morman Stamp, 22; its reality denied, 144; fac-simile
of, 169

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Peru, Ancient Posts, 70; stamps, 180
Persian Posts, 8

Pleasures of the Post-office, 123
Polish Envelope Stamps, 185
Pony Express, Forged, 91

Portugal, Donna Maria, 73; Don Pedro, 112
Postage Stamp Collecting in Italy, 121
Postage Stamps, Morality of, 92

Postal Chit-Chat, 77, 94, 109, 125, 142, 158, 173
Postal Communication, History of, 7, 23, 35, 69
Postman, The Country, 126
Post-office, a singular, 38; inside the, 26; opening let.
ters at the, 14; our national, 131; pleasures of the,
123; the general at six p.m., 38; travelling, 10
Prince Consort Essay, 9, 31; engraving of, 40; discussion
on, 46; Dr. Gray on, 78; Mr. Burn's reply, 95; Dr.
Gray's rejoinder, 111; Mr. Burn's second reply, 127
Prussia, 48, 76, 128; envelopes, 137, 150; forged, 183

Reception of the Corrientes Stamp in Paris, 85
Reunion, 186, 192

Reviews of Postal Publications, 15, 29, 44, 75, 93, 109,
124, 141, 157, 172

Roman Posts, 35; stamps, 177

Rowland Hill, Press on the Retirement of Sir, 58
Royal Road to Learning, 25

Russia, 137; inland postage, 144; envelopes, 150

Sandwich Islands, 64, 80; rare 13 cents, 169; forged,

101, 156; new issue, 153

Sardinia, 32, 162

Saxony, 156; forged, 183

Schleswig, 73; Schleswig Holstein, 57

Sicily, 123; forged, 101, 156

Singular Post-office, 38

Sketches of the Less-Known Stamp Countries, 4, 19, 41, 51,

82, 106, 115, 139, 146

South American Stamps, Notes on, 178

Spain, new issue, 24, 40, 58; old issues, 102; official,
112; forged, 69, 90; envelope, 137; queen of, 178
St. Helena, 73, 136

St. Lucia, 105

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THE

STAMP-COLLECTOR'S MAGAZINE.

THE HISTORY OF MY STAMP ALBUM. INTRODUCTION.

MYSELF.

'Pity the sorrows of a lonely man,

With books, and friends, and ample means, that can Enjoy himself, and lounge about the town, And reach his lodgings fearless of a frown.' Ir was a cold, dark night in December: without, the wind moaned in fitful gusts, and the slow, steady rain beat in dreary, monotonous cadence on my window panes ; but I was little affected by either the closely-drawn curtains shutting out the gloom of the evening; and a clear, bright fire defying the raging of the elements.

With a feeling of intense comfort and complacency, I glanced round my warm, snug bachelor's room. I was alone in the world, having lost my father and mother in early childhood. My bringing-up and education were superintended by a cross, selfish, and misanthropical old uncle, my sole relative, and who, as soon as he had obtained for me a lucrative situation as clerk in Messrs. Clark and Thomson's office, in the city, washed his hands of my future, and left his only nephew to make his way, unprotected and uncared for, in the wide world. But it was with no very keen sorrow at my lonely condition, that I drew my chair and table nearer the cheery wood fire on this cold winter's evening, and set myself to arrange, for the hundredth time at least, my choice collection of stamps-placing, replacing, and displacing them in my pretty russia-leather album. I had been peculiarly fortunate, and ranked amongst my collection the rarest and choicest specimens. The mania had just then come into fashion; and I was one of the most ardent and devoted votaries of Timbromanie.

While thus, with pleased and satisfied eyes, gloating over my treasures, I was suddenly interrupted by the abrupt entrance of my former school friend, Charles Lawson, who in his usual impetuous manner rushed up to me, shook both my hands, and finally threw himself, breathless and exhausted, into the chair opposite mine. Before I had time to collect my scattered thoughts, he was pouring forth a string of arguments, entreaties, and supplications, the sense of which, after some time, I managed to gather. He was going with two or three mutual acquaintances to see the Colleen Bawn, then in the zenith of its popularity, and afterwards all were to adjourn to some famous oyster rooms to supper. Would I be of the party? If so, we must lose no time; we must start directly.' I was about to replace my album in the table drawer as usual, when my restless, impatient friend interrupted me by exclaiming:

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'Come along, old fellow; don't wait to put anything away; I am off, you see.'

Hastily extinguishing my lamp, I followed Lawson, who had by this time nearly reached the street door.

CHAPTER I.

MY LOSS.

"Madam! I've lost my album, with a pack Of choicest postage stamps. Call Susan-Jack— Confound it!" And the woman cries, "Alack! If Con has found it, perhaps he'll bring it back." Ir was long after midnight before I returned home, after this night of unusual dissipation. I was far too tired to think of anything but getting to bed as quickly as possible, and, once there, I fell into a sound and dreamless sleep, from which I did not awake until the stroke of eight tolling from St. Clement's Church, hard by, put the drowsy god to

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