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Show 1 An Odd Post Card. Tho most curious post card over produced, pro-duced, According to n lending philatelist, philate-list, wiia -rno which tho Jnpaneso government gov-ernment put out In 1873. In describing ho says it la "renlly n sheet ot paper folded bo ns to form four pages of a narrow book. On tho front page la a border Inclosing nu Impressed Im-pressed stamp for tho postngo mto and a space for the address. On tho second sec-ond page are printed In native characters charac-ters only tnlnuto directions for use. On tbo third" page are ruled a number of vertical lines, between which tho sender send-er was to wrlto his commuulcntlou, and the fourth page was a blank." They .remained n use until 187S. |