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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 573

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issue by Turkey,or, as the stamps themselves indicate, by the Otto-man Empire. There are only three values in theset, the ten-paras (in green), the twenty (red), andforty (blue). The face-value of the entire set isvery small; the low price and the beauty of thedesign will combine to make it very… … newspapers of theprolonged siege ofAdrianople, andwere told how des-perately the Turksfought to retainpossession of the) sacred city and itsfamous mosque.} The central part of the new stamps pictures this mosque, so holy in the eyes of the Moham-medans. The design further shows, in the upper…

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