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INDEX Antigua, 14 Antioquia, 160 Fernando Poo, 44 Argentine Republic, 25, 116 Fiji, 56, 118, 133, 162 Assab, 116 Forgeries, 75 Austria, 61, 76, 100, 161 France, 14, 27, 62, 76, 133 Azores, 26, 128 French Colonies, 14, 87, 101 French Society and their Catalogues, Bavaria, 26, 68, 81, 93 70 Belgium, 131 118 Bermuda, 43, 117, 161 Gambia, 87, 101, Bhopal, 100, 145 Germany, 28, 44, 52, 63, 101, 118, Bhore, 133 125 145 Bibliography of the Stamps of Gold Coast, 4, 15 Mauritius, 127 Great Britain, 4, 15, 21, 35, 54, 70, 101, 115, 118, 145 Bibliotheque des Timbrophiles, 1, 41, 131 Grenada, 87 "Bleute par la Gomme," 94, 114, Guinea, 101 141, 153, 167 Hawaiian Islands, 95 Bolivar, 100, 160 Heligoland, 153, 167 Brazil, 161 Holland, 44 British Guiana, 76 Hong Kong, 27, 44, 63, 76, 88, 119, British Honduras, 87 133, 143, 146, 152, 162 Buenos Ayres, 87, 117 Hungary, 63 Bulgaria, 20 Iceland, 119 Cabul, 111 India, 4, 45, 88, 101, 107, 111 Cape of Good Hope, 3, 26, 61, 100, Ionian Islands, 126 118 Cashmere, 14, 76, 87 Japan, 22 Ceylon, 26, 61, 87 Java, 15, 71, 82 Chili, 118, 133, 115 Christiansund, 3 Labium, 119, 133, 162 Congres International des Timbro- Liberia, 133, 146, 162 philes, 99 List of Members of the Philatelic Correspondence, 35, 54, 55, 70, 82. Society, 74 94, 111, 112. 114, 125, 141, Livonia, 133 153, 167 Luxemburg, 76 Cuba, 4, 44, 133 Luzon, 28, 45, 77 Cyprus, 44, 61, 145 Madeira, 4, 45, 77, 88, 127, 134, 146 Danish West Indies, 14, 118 Mauritius, 6, 15, 17, 28, 31, 45, 48, Deccan, 76, 111, 145 64, 70, 78, 89, 102, 107, 119, 122, 127, 134, 136, 149, 164 Ecuador, 162 Mexico, 63, 88, 162 Egypt, 41 Montserrat, 15 Envelopes, Cut and Uncut, 112, 126 Mount Athos. (See Turkey, 89.) 172 INDEX. Natal, 134, 146 Samoa, 83 Newfoundland, 5, 28, 46, 77 Sarawak, 84 New Granada, 134, 162 Scandal, A Philatelic, 59 Newspaper Stamps of Great Britain, Servia, 47 168 Shanghai, 103 New South Wales, 29, 46, 63, 102 Sirmoor, 77 Nevis, 77 South Australia, 16, 63, 155, 169 Nicaragua, 102 Spain, 47, 104 Notes and Queries, 12, 23, 40, 58, St. Domingo, 147, 163 74, 84, 98, 114, 129, 142, 158, St. Vincent, 77, 89, 135 170 Stamp Journals and Dealers, 13 Straits Settlements, 16, 29, 48, 1-04, 163 Surinam, Paraguay, 119 48 Switzerland, 48 Persia, 5, 15, 34 Peru, 16 Porto Rico, 5, 30, 119, 134 Tasmania, 9, 164 Portugal, 5, 46, 77, 88, 135, 140 Thurn and Taxis, 1 Portuguese Indies, 120 To our Readers, 159 Postage of Printed Matter, 85 Tolima, 135, 148 Postmasters, A "Word to, 143 Transvaal, 36, 48, 63, 105, 120, 136, Proceedings of the Philatelic Society, 148 9, 23, 36, 40, 55, 71, 83, 95, Trinidad, 64 129, 142, 153, 167 Turkey, 6, 89 Pskoff, 135 Turk's Isles, 64 Queensland, 46, 88, 102, 120, 162 Uruguay, 104, 121, 148, 164 Rajpeepla, 135, 146 Venezuela, 6, 16, 29, 48, 105, 121, Rawal Pindi, 46, 102, 112 136, 164 Roumania, 29, 47, 102, 120 Virgin Isles, 30, 121 Roumelia, 16, 29, 88, 102, 162 Russia, 55, 88, 103, 135, 147 Wurtemburg, 17 gffat §Mfat#t ^m\[i Vol. II. No. 13. FEBRUARY. 1880. E gladly welcome the appearance of another volume of M. Moens' BibUotheque des Timbropliiles, which is as carefully compiled and sumptuously printed as are its eight predecessors. The present volume treats of the stamps and envelopes of the Thurn and Taxis postal administration. An introductory historical account of the princely house of Thurn and Taxis, which is of Italian origin, tells us that its first postal venture was a post established by Count Eoger L, in the Tyrol, in 1450. To his descendant, Count Francis IV., the Emperor Maximilian con- fided the direction not only of the posts in his own dominions, but also in those territories which he might later acquire. At the period when the Thurn and Taxis administration first issued postage stamps, although it had ceased to control the posts of Austria, Wurtemburg, Holland, Saxony, and some other States, it still had the direction of those of Hesse, Saxe-Weimar, Eeuss, Lippe, Saxe- Meiningen, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Schwartz- burg-Eudolstadt, Nassau, Hohenzollern, Hesse-Homburg, Hesse- Darmstadt, and the free towns of Hamburg, Bremen, Lubeck, and Erankfort-on-Main. In 1867 the Prince of Thurn and Taxis ceded his rights to the administration of these posts, by treaty with Prussia, for a sum not quite equal to £500,000. The first thing of the nature of a stamp issued by this adminis- tration was a stamped envelope, in Wurtemburg, shortly prior to its relinquishing its claim to control the posts of that country for a sum of 1,300,000 florins. The use of this envelope, of the value of 1 kreuzer, was at first restricted to the city of Stuttgardt, but was afterwards extended to the towns of Tubingen, Ulm, Heilbronn, Ludwigsburg, and Reutlingen. The stamps consist of the words, Price 2d. 2s. 6d. per Annum. Abroad, 3s. 2 THE PHILATELIC RECORD. in two linos of German type. " fraxkirter stadtbrief," printed in red within a double-lined oblong frame of the same colour, voided at the angles. The decree announcing its emission is dated the 23rd September, 1847, and that intimating its with- drawal, owing to the cession to Wurteinburg of the right to administer her own postal affairs, bears the date of 6th October, 1851. The first adhesive stamps were issued in 1853, and are well known to all collectors. In addition to the cost of postage from town to town, a further charge for delivery had to be taken into account and prepaid. This charge amounted to \ groschen (or the equivalent in kreuzers) ; and thus a letter, the mere postage on which amounted to f silber groschen, had to be franked with a stamp of the value of 1 silber groschen. The succeeding issues were printed on white, instead of on coloured paper, because it was supposed that the process of obliteration was more success- fully performed upon the former than upon the latter. Down to 1864 the stamps and envelopes were prepared at the Eoyal Printing Office at Berlin; and from 1865 the rouletted stamps and later envelopes were furnished by Messrs. Xaumann and Dondorf, of Frankfort-on-]\Iain. For further interesting details we must refer our readers to the work from which we have already freely borrowed. The Wiener IUustrirte Briefma r~ken Zeitung, now in its fifth year of publication, has changed its name, with the January number, to that of Die Weltpost, under which cognomen we wish " it every success. It appeals to the English public thus : This gazette, winch circulates in the circle of considerable persons because of its special tendency and its distinguished contents, and which has numerous subscribers in every land of the earth, suits particularly to the advertisement the most efficacious for dealers of stamps, antiquities, coins, and for such who are occupying them- selves in objects of collections. The "Gazette Illustrated of Stamps," published only once a month, does not soonly disappear to the reader's eye, but, on the contrary, because of its interesting and instructive contents, it is being collected and bound, and in this manner it is used for ever as a book of reference. For that reason its advertisements produce an enduring effect." It is sad to reflect that, as compared with the Weitposfs English, our German is probably faulty. We have received Tlte Philatelists Gazette for this month. Its contents, apart from a list of watermarks borrowed from Moens ! : NOVELTIES, DISCOVERIES, AND RESUSCITATIONS. 6 and Pemberton (by a contributor whose nom de plume is a not unsuccessful imitation of a cough) may be roughly classed into "Comicalities!" Novelties, and Information. Under the first heading we find the following quite too brilliant scintillation " Our new penny postage stamps are, like a warlike and brave ! soldier, still determined to be ready (reddy) " As a novelty, we have the announcement of the Bosnian adhesives ! ! And, finally, " the editor says : We do not know the meaning of perforated ' La Susse,' unless it is meant for ' La Suisse,' which would mean " the Swiss mode of perforation ! ! ' attfc ]|j»j$i$$ t Jfotptt^*, \tpmyiatfan*. Cape Of Good Hope.—We are already cognisant of one error amongst the provisional 3d. stamps, which we described in De- cember. It consists of the word three being printed thus, the.ee. We have only seen two or three specimens, and do not know how many there may be on each sheet. Christiansund.—We have little doubt that Messrs. Andresen and Co. sell more of their stamps to collectors than for the purpose of franking letters. They have favoured the world with a new issue of six adhesives and two post cards, which Messrs. Whitfield, King, and Co. have sent to us. Following the example of some of the conductors of Local posts in America, the head of the firm, we presume, has adorned the new issue with his own portrait, and he appears to have had his nose curled for the auspicious occasion. The adhesives are of one type, each value being printed in two colours. In an oval centre is the portrait, within another oval of colour, inscribed in white letters, with the words " kristianssunds" above, and "bypost" beneath, a small ornament on each side separating them.