What Philately Teaches - A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by John N. Luff
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[Illustration: Stamp Arrangement, "Newfoundland", 3 pence]
The triangular stamps of the Cape of Good Hope and New Foundland are so arranged in the plate that half of them are _tête bêche_ to the other half. The same is true of the stamps of Grenada of the issue of 1883. [Illustration: Stamp, "Hawaiian Postage", 5 cents] [Illustration: Stamp, "Petersburg, Virgina", 5 cents] [Illustration: Stamp, "Eranco en Guadalajara", 2 reales] [Illustration: Stamp, "Ile de la Réunion", 15 centimes] Another form of typography is found in stamps which are composed of printer's type and ornaments. These are usually called "type-set", to distinguish them from stamps produced by the normal process of typography. Stamps made in this manner are often of a high degree of rarity, having been produced in remote parts of the world, where facilities were limited and the use of stamps restricted. To this class belong the stamps of the first issues of British Guiana, Hawaii and Reunion, which rank among the greatest philatelic rarities. We show you here a number of type-set stamps. The first was used in the Hawaiian Islands, in payment of postage on letters between the different islands. There are a number of plates of these stamps, of different values, and each containing ten varieties. The second stamp was issued by the postmaster of Petersburg, Va., in the early days of the war of the rebellion and before the postal service of the Confederate government was in working order. The third was used in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1869, during the war between France and that country. It was |
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