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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 141

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CHESEBROUGH MANUFACTURING COMPANY (Consolidated) 38 State Street New York City i ST. NICHOLAS STAMP PAGE NEW SURCHARGES THERE are many collectors who do not like sur-charged stamps, who do not collect them, whotake pleasure in enumerating the good old stamp-is-suing countries which have never… … charges. But one by one the list gets shorter andshorter. Now Switzerland for the first time issuessurcharged stamps. There are three of these so far:one of one centime on two, and two of 13 on 12.Just why this rate of 13 centimes was needed, we donot know. As will be seen in the illustration, the…

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