Show ART ON ENVELOPES reader have you seen the now new columbian stamps which whid in their fifteen different denominations comprise a whole picture gallery they are of comfortably comfortable size and consider lug the amount of art arc displayed they are selling at a ridiculously low rate fot for two cents for instance you can got get the landing maroon this will be the moat used of all the various styles and it is 18 the only one which has reached our latitude in any numbers as yet other grades and qualities and colors are equally reasonable in price the chicago N news owa record quotes quotas them at the figure that prevailed the day after their introduction at the worlds pair fair city As the price has probably not advanced since that time there is still reason to believe that one cent buys a blue landscape showing columbus on shipboard iu in sight of land for three cents there is a green engraving of the santa maria and a picture of the entire columbian fleet may be had for one cent more it costs a nickel to see columbus appealing to queen isabella for aid six 4 ants to see him entering barcelona in triumph royal purple ten cents to see the presentation of aborigines at the spanish court in vandyke brown and fifteen witness the explorer in the act of reciting the story of his discovery there are 60 50 cont cent 1 2 3 8 4 and 5 stamps clamps for toe the use of the extravagant but those mentioned are the principal ones |