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POSTAGE STAMPS.

THE BALLOON POST.

[By Fred. J. Melvilio.] This is the commemoration day

THE CHINA MAIL.

For such letters, news-letter, and the aeroplane, while the decund in

Journals, provides the most precise the colour of the map;

data for Identification. Even when † the balloons were lost at sea most of the mails were recovered and dalvared. The book illustrates, among many others a letter car ried by the Jacquard, which left the of the collectors of air post stampa,Gare d'Oricans at night on Novom or, as the more high-falutin among ber 11 with 250 kilos of mail and them call themselves, the aero-was lost at sea within sight of philosemiats." The name is not

Land's End. Such lottors Are original or so new on air stamp.

the ampless,

having collecting, for thirty years a sonked of the tank but someone essayed to inflict t at they bear Paris departure post greater length upon stamp-collec-marks from November 25 to 28. and tors in general as "philosemeto received the cachet of the Fal- tialscomistographisto." Mr Punch mouth post office of December E and failed to complete the word in an effort four verses long. With Mr

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15 centimos, blug and orange

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20 centimos, dright red and green, .: (300,000)

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30 centimos brown and bite

.: (300,000) 40 centimos,

green and dark

brown (800,000:3

4 pesetas.

(50,000).

mauve and red

it

These two satą form part of the general new Red Cross stamp issue) ongraved and printed by Messrs. Waterlow and Sona, of London.

Seven new air post stamps were Issued in Austria on September 7, and were in uss on air mail services. the following day. They are in the current designs, the groschen values depicting an aviator hi the cockpit of his machine, and the chilling values showing birds on The denominations are the wing.

The last balloon but one to leave, the Richard Wallace, foll in the Bay of Arcachon on January 27, 1871, and the letters were fished up after about two weeks' immersion, La Ville d'Orleans. mande the Hongest trip, just over 2,000 miles, To stick, to "Stamp-Collector" falling in the sea near Lifjeld, 10 gr. orange, 15 gr. claret, 30 gr. So it is the al atamp-collector Norway. The aeronaut in distress slate-brown. 50 gr, sky-blue, 3 sch who may mark this as a red-letter had thrown out one bag, which was purple-brown, 5 sth. indigo.. 10 sch. day, the anniversary of the morn recovered by a Norwegian vessel, dark brown. Costa Roca has also Ing in 1870 when Jules Duruof put and all the bags were duly return-issued an air stamp, 20 centimos new heart into the citizens of be

ad to France; ---.

bright ultramarine In- B design aleged Paris by carrying off in the

showing an aeroplane (labelled ; balloon Neptune the first consider- Fable aerial mail. He rose from The number of Government sero. "Correo Aereo") in Hight, and with Montmartre at 8 a.m.with two mail-stamps available for the air stamp-the shield of the Republie in the bags containing letters written on collector.continues to grow steadily top left corner,

New Aero Stamps.

thin paper, weighing in the aggre but at a pace which enables even gate 125. kilos. He came down the collector with enly a limited three hours later at Cratonville, amount to spend on his hobby to about sixty-five miles west of the keep his series nearly complete. A capital and his letters were del-new set in issued from: Spain show vered to their destinations.

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The stirring history of the sub- sequent ascants from Parls with mails and sometimes passengers at that period has been told fa count- less books and articlos. Letters and cards carried and delivered have been preserved, as interesting, historical curios ever since. But with the rise of air atarip-ccllecting these have acquired an enhanced value on the market. Indeed, the demand has become so great that the counterfeiter hug stepped · in So furtively to help to meet it. Pancois, M. L

an eminent French philatelis, has just Published R bon. Le Carra pondancas par Bullon monté du siége de Paris" (Yvert and Tellier, Amiens, 12 francs), in which the subject is treated with every atten-

The col tion to philatelic detail lector will generally be able to tell from this work whether his balloon post letters and cards are all they purport to be.

Letters still exist which were car- ried by Duruof or that memorable Arst trip. But to be sure of them they should bear Paria postmarks from September 19 to 22, and, ar- riva: marks of September 24 to 27. Of 67 ascents 56 officially carried mail, amounting in all to 21⁄2 mil llon letters, most of which were delivered in spite of the warying fates of the balloons. By a study of the postal markings a good many of the letters' preserved -may be be identified with the particular balloon which carried them, and M. Francois, who must have examined an extraordinary number

vignette of the seaplane "Plus Ultra," and commemorating the flight by France from Palos to There are seven Buenos Aires. values in the following colours and printings:

black

5 centimos, black and mauve

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50 centimos, orange and

(300,000).

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