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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 271

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ny-thing which can compare with the exquisite engrav-ing of the early Ceylon or thewonderful colors of the earlyissues of St. Lucia and St.Vincent. But here at last issomething new, and some-thing which can come a closesecond to those older issueswhich we collectors admireso much. These Bavarias… … ter-mark is hori-zontal wavylines. On thelower values theKings portraitis about threequarters shown,and he is wear-ing spectacles;while in thehigher, or mark, values, thereare no spectacles, and the faceis in profile. (A mark is worthtwenty-five cents in our cur-rency.) The colors of the setare as…

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