Examples of some Philatelic Terms:--A "Bisect," or "Bisected Provisional." The One Penny stamp of Jamaica was in 1861 permitted to be cut in halves diagonally, and each half used as a halfpenny stamp 37
Examples of some Philatelic Terms:--Photograph of a flat steel _die_ engraved in _taille douce_ (_i.e._, with the lines of the design cut into the plate). The stamp is the 50 lepta of Greece, issue of 1901, showing Hermes adapted from the Mercury of Giovanni da Bologna 51
Scarce Pamphlet (first page) in which William Dockwra announces the Penny Post of 1680 65
Sardinian Letter Sheet of 1818: 15 centesimi.--The 25 centesimi Letter Sheet of Sardinia. Issued in Sardinia, 1818; the earliest use of Letter Sheets with embossed stamps 89
The highest denomination, 50 centesimi, of the Sardinian Letter Sheets.--One of the temporary envelopes issued for the use of members of the House of Lords, prior to the issue of stamps and covers to the public, 1840 93
The "James Chalmers" Essay.--Rough sketches in water-colours submitted by Rowland Hill to the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the first postage stamps 99
Hitherto unpublished examples of the proposals submitted to the Lords of the Treasury in 1839 in competition for prizes offered in connection with the Penny Postage plan. (From the Author's Collection) 103
The address side of the model letter which has the stamp (shown below) affixed to the back as a seal.--Another of the unpublished essays submitted in the competition of 1839 for the Penny Postage plan. (From the Author's Collection) 107
A Postage Stamp "Chart"--one of the early forms of stamp-collecting 119
The small "experimental" plate from which impressions of the Two Pence, Great Britain, were made on "Dickinson" paper. Only two rows of four stamps were impressed on each piece of the paper. (_Cf._ next plate) 157
The Two Pence, Great Britain, on "Dickinson" paper. The upper block is in red (24 stamps printed in all, of which nine copies are known), and the lower block in blue (16 stamps printed, of which twelve copies are known). The above blocks of six each are in the possession of Mr. Lewis Evans; the pairs cut from the left side of each block were in the collection of the late Mrs. John Evans 161