The Stamp-collector's magazine, 1-3. kötet1863 |
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3. oldal
... bearing the arms of that city impressed in bronze . The next year ( 1850 ) launched the general Spanish ( of which more anon ) , the Thurn and Taxis , Baden , local Saxon , Wurtemburg , and Prus- sian . The first and last of these bore ...
... bearing the arms of that city impressed in bronze . The next year ( 1850 ) launched the general Spanish ( of which more anon ) , the Thurn and Taxis , Baden , local Saxon , Wurtemburg , and Prus- sian . The first and last of these bore ...
8. oldal
... bearing the word ' Paid , ' and no Queen's head . When the Penny Postage system was first resolved on , the authorities issued a pros- pectus , offering a reward of £ 500 for the The best design and plan for a stamp . conditions 8 [ FEB ...
... bearing the word ' Paid , ' and no Queen's head . When the Penny Postage system was first resolved on , the authorities issued a pros- pectus , offering a reward of £ 500 for the The best design and plan for a stamp . conditions 8 [ FEB ...
30. oldal
... bearing the same value . A. B. , Crow Hall . - The stamps you forwarded , 1 , 2 , and 3 florins in value , are Austrian bill - stamps . J. S. , Birmingham . - The higher - priced English enve- lopes can be procured from Somerset House ...
... bearing the same value . A. B. , Crow Hall . - The stamps you forwarded , 1 , 2 , and 3 florins in value , are Austrian bill - stamps . J. S. , Birmingham . - The higher - priced English enve- lopes can be procured from Somerset House ...
37. oldal
... bearing the earlier , and the latter the later cancel . PRESIDENCY . The two stamps under this head both show below the neck a very minute B , the initial of Barre , the engraver's name . EMPIRE . The 25 c . , blue , which is also both ...
... bearing the earlier , and the latter the later cancel . PRESIDENCY . The two stamps under this head both show below the neck a very minute B , the initial of Barre , the engraver's name . EMPIRE . The 25 c . , blue , which is also both ...
44. oldal
... bearing the imprint of artistic talent . It would be straying from the intent of this magazine , to seek the cause of this want of taste which characterises the North American ; let us be content to say , that , devoted exclusively to ...
... bearing the imprint of artistic talent . It would be straying from the intent of this magazine , to seek the cause of this want of taste which characterises the North American ; let us be content to say , that , devoted exclusively to ...
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Address adhesive appearance arms Baden Bath bearing blue British Guiana Brunswick Buenos Ayres catalogue centre cents collection COLLECTOR'S MAGAZINE collectors Confederate containing correspondent Dealers dozen edition Editor England English engraving essays figure Foreign Postage Stamps Foreign Stamps forgery fourpenny French genuine George Street green groschen Hamburg Hanover head impression inscription Ionian Islands Islands issue Italy J. E. GRAY labels letters London Lubeck ment Modena Moens Moldavia morocco Mount Brown never notice Nova Scotia oblong obsolete oval PACKET paper penny post free post-office POSTAGE-STAMP ALBUM present Price List Prince printed rare stamps receipt of stamped rose Russia Saxony sent on receipt sheet shilling sixpenny SMITH & SMITH specimens STAFFORD SMITH STAMP ALBUM STAMP-COLLECTOR'S MAGAZINE stamped envelope stamped in Colours threepenny Thurn and Taxis tion town twopenny unobliterated unused Wallachia Wurtemburg yellow
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77. oldal - The popular harangue, the tart reply, The logic, and the wisdom, and the wit, And the loud laugh — I long to know them all ; I burn to set the imprisoned wranglers free, And give them voice and utterance once again.
77. oldal - And having dropped the expected bag — pass on. He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful: messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some, To him indifferent whether grief or joy.
130. oldal - repeated the postmaster. " What's that to you? " said Andy. The postmaster, laughing at his simplicity, told him he could not tell what letter to give him, unless he told him the direction. "The directions I got was to get a letther here — that's the directions.
131. oldal - While the postmaster went on with such provoking answers to these appeals for dispatch, Andy's eye caught the heap of letters which lay on the counter: so while certain weighing of soap and tobacco was going forward, he contrived to become possessed of two letters from the heap, and, having effected that, waited patiently enough...
130. oldal - Yes, sir," said the postmaster, producing one— "fourpence." The gentleman paid the fourpence postage, and left the shop with his letter. • " Here's a letter for the squire," said the postmaster ; "you've to pay me elevenpence postage.
130. oldal - Why, you stupid rascal, if you don't tell me his name how can I give you a letter?" "You could give it if you liked ; but you're fond of axin' impident questions, bekase you think I'm simple." " Go along out o' this ! Your master must be as great a goose as yourself, to send such a messenger.
59. oldal - He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
131. oldal - ... could carry him. He came into the squire's presence, his face beaming with delight, and an air of selfsatisfied superiority in his manner, quite unaccountable to his master, until he pulled forth his hand, which had been grubbing up his prizes from...
74. oldal - that we have invented this manner of corresponding and franking our letters.' Mr Hill, having heard of this incident, introduced it into his first pamphlet on postal reform, as a lively illustration of the absurdity of the old system. It was by an inadvertency on the part of a modern historical writer that Mr Hill was ever described as the person to whom the incident happened.
130. oldal - Yis, sir," said Andy, who got astride of his hack, and trotted away to the post-office. On arriving at the shop of the postmaster (for that person carried on a brisk trade in groceries, gimlets, broadcloth, and linendrapery), Andy presented himself at the counter and said: "I want a letther, sir, if you plaze.