NEW ISSUES.
The whole set is most beautifully printed, as was to be expected from, that famous firm of stamp manufacturers, the American Bank Note Company of New York; as usual the line-engraved r process was used for all values. Adhesives:!< 1809; Perf 12— lc slate-grey, 2s green, 4<j red, 5c mauve-violet, 10c Prussian blue, 120 greyish blue, 20c chestnut, 500 yellow-bistre, 1 frol. blue-black and lake. Postage Due Stamps: 1909; Perf. 12— lo chocolate, 5o chocolate," 10c chocolate, 500 chocolate. Official Stamps: 1909; Perf. 12— lc vermillion, 10c brown, 500 olive-green. French West Africa. — We read in Le Timbrophile de France that not only the Ivory Coast but all the, other colonies at present grouped .together as "French West-'ifrioa" ' are to havenew of stamps distinct from . each other in design. This means complete • new seta for the Ivory Coast, Dahomey, : Guinea, Upper Senegal-Niger, Mauritania;, ' and Senegal. It is open to question - whether a catalogue publisher would not be within his right in classifying them as locals stamps. •■ Queensland.— The id is now appearing printed in black on a white ground.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2895, 8 September 1909, Page 64
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181NEW ISSUES. Otago Witness, Issue 2895, 8 September 1909, Page 64
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