| Show LITTLE LETTER CARRIERS the two dollar columbiana columbians Columb ians are being unloaded by dealers and can be had at liberal discounts off catalogue prices during the year ending june 2046 post offices were established and 1750 discontinued a net gain of the english like the english flag is to be found in all parts of the world from the isles of great britain to the cape of good hope from china to borneo and india from kova scotia and canada to the west indies from victoria to the fiji islands and australia extend the ramifications of the english postal service stamp collecting is an old pastime in paris and seems to have had its origin in 1854 the original collector was a poor workman named august mancin who formed a collection by going around offices asking clerks to give him all the castaway stamps home and foreign ite was regarded as a mild lunatic and his requests were granted suddenly mancin fell ill lost work and was reduced to destitution lie managed to sell his wares for a trifle to a few stamp merchants who had commenced business in paris that collection is now said to b worth no establishment has ever taken such pains to make counterfeiting difficult as the imperial printing office of germany at berlin one measure was to print the stamp on the back of a thin transparent material ip a soluble color stamps so treated vere the ten and 30 of prussia in placing these st ampson envelopes the side on which they were printed was placed next the envelope and any subsequent attempt to detach it usually us left a portion of the color on the envelope making the stamp valueless but for some reason the method was unsatisfactory and it was soon abandoned |
