The Stamp-collector's magazine, 1-3. kötet1863 |
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24. oldal
... green ; 48 c . , rose ; and 96 c . , black . In the four corners they bear the Egyptian ( mis- called the Grecian ) pattern ; the name Hong Kong at the top , and the value below ; on the right and left Chinese characters , -from which ...
... green ; 48 c . , rose ; and 96 c . , black . In the four corners they bear the Egyptian ( mis- called the Grecian ) pattern ; the name Hong Kong at the top , and the value below ; on the right and left Chinese characters , -from which ...
27. oldal
... green threepenny stamps are like the blue twopenny ones in many respects . The frame is single and the motto in three lines , but the letters are dark on a pale ground , and the side frames are formed of engine- turned transverse oblong ...
... green threepenny stamps are like the blue twopenny ones in many respects . The frame is single and the motto in three lines , but the letters are dark on a pale ground , and the side frames are formed of engine- turned transverse oblong ...
28. oldal
... green is employed for England . British Guiana . We possess both a red and a brown of the 1854 , and a light and a dark brown 1 c . of the 1860 issues ; the 2 c . is vermillion , not red , and there are a light and a dark - green 24 c ...
... green is employed for England . British Guiana . We possess both a red and a brown of the 1854 , and a light and a dark brown 1 c . of the 1860 issues ; the 2 c . is vermillion , not red , and there are a light and a dark - green 24 c ...
31. oldal
... Green Hill , Grantham . George Bolton , 16 , Spring Street , Hull , wishes to buy several Collections , containing from 300 to 600 stamps each . Any one requiring Rare or other Stamps may be supplied , by addressing ( prepaid ) to ...
... Green Hill , Grantham . George Bolton , 16 , Spring Street , Hull , wishes to buy several Collections , containing from 300 to 600 stamps each . Any one requiring Rare or other Stamps may be supplied , by addressing ( prepaid ) to ...
38. oldal
... green , like the shilling , in some collections . The one penny , with letters in each angle , is not yet out . ESSAYS . There appear to exist many not hitherto described in any catalogue . We possess one we cannot identify as noticed ...
... green , like the shilling , in some collections . The one penny , with letters in each angle , is not yet out . ESSAYS . There appear to exist many not hitherto described in any catalogue . We possess one we cannot identify as noticed ...
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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.