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4. oldal
... The most prominent postal pattern is the which were all of the selfsame colour
and reigning sovereign ' s head ; witness our own bore a similar device , but
within diversely domestic and colonial stamps , and some of formed scrolls ; and
the ...
... The most prominent postal pattern is the which were all of the selfsame colour
and reigning sovereign ' s head ; witness our own bore a similar device , but
within diversely domestic and colonial stamps , and some of formed scrolls ; and
the ...
24. oldal
The Turkish stamps of which there are four , printed in black , on coloured paper ,
are NEWLY - ISSUED STAMPS . noticeable rather for singularity than beauty .
They bear the sign - manual of the Sultan , ay Not always does reality an - |
above ...
The Turkish stamps of which there are four , printed in black , on coloured paper ,
are NEWLY - ISSUED STAMPS . noticeable rather for singularity than beauty .
They bear the sign - manual of the Sultan , ay Not always does reality an - |
above ...
28. oldal
Except the ld . of this terra incognita . rose - coloured ( not red ) , they are rare ;
the id . blue , and 4d . rose - coloured , particularly Brazil . so . Dr . Gray , with his
usual close perceptive Ceylon . powers , has remarked a light and a dark With
the ...
Except the ld . of this terra incognita . rose - coloured ( not red ) , they are rare ;
the id . blue , and 4d . rose - coloured , particularly Brazil . so . Dr . Gray , with his
usual close perceptive Ceylon . powers , has remarked a light and a dark With
the ...
40. oldal
This last is became the observed of all observers , ' in a also printed on brick -
coloured paper , and costume covered with ... Another symptom of the lack of
honesty row band of some strongly contrasting colour , in postal dealings , is the
...
This last is became the observed of all observers , ' in a also printed on brick -
coloured paper , and costume covered with ... Another symptom of the lack of
honesty row band of some strongly contrasting colour , in postal dealings , is the
...
43. oldal
Thirdly , a Classification Systematique , groupant les timbres suivant les colours
pour leur etude comparative , where the stamps are arranged in a heraldic shield
, in quarterings according to their positive colours . In other respects this ...
Thirdly , a Classification Systematique , groupant les timbres suivant les colours
pour leur etude comparative , where the stamps are arranged in a heraldic shield
, in quarterings according to their positive colours . In other respects this ...
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Address ALBUM American appearance arms arranged Austrian Bath bearing blue bound British brown Brunswick called catalogue cents collection collectors Colonial colour contains correspondent Crests Dealers described dozen edition English engraving envelope essays Express figure Foreign Foreign Stamps forgery four French genuine George Street give green hand Hanover head House hundred impression Islands issue Italy kind known letters lines London MAGAZINE means month Mount never notice PACKET Parma passed penny possess post free post-office postage stamps present Price Price List Prince printed rare receipt received respecting rose seen sent sheet shilling side sixpenny SMITH & SMITH specimens STAFFORD SMITH Street supply tion town United unused varieties wanted 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.
128. 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.
129. 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...
128. 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.
128. 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.
57. oldal - He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
129. 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.
128. 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.