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Giving the date of issue, color, shape and value of every stamp that has ever been issued by any Government in the World, with illustrations of nearly every type of stamp and surcharge, and pricing most of the listed varieties in both used and unused condition.

United States Stamps

Illustrated in accordance with the new law

CLOTH COVER

CLOTH COVER, thumb indexed.

.$1.50

2.00

Shipping weight, 2 lbs. Forwarding charges extra.

SCOTT STAMP & COIN CO.

33 West 44th Street

New York, N. Y.

SEVENT

A Philatelist's Life of Columbus

By Edward K. Thurlow

EVENTEEN stamp-issuing countries (U. S., Argentine Republic, Canal Zone, Chile, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Porto Rico, Salvador, Trinidad, and Venezuela) have issued stamps with Columbian designs. They are all in the Western Hemisphere. As one might expect, they were nearly all issued during the quadricentennial years, 1892-1906. To Chile, however, must be given the credit of particular honors paid to the great discoverer. That country, which Columbus never even came near to seeing, began its stamp issues, in 1853, with a design showing the head of Columbus, and, with the exception of the 1904 issue, used no other face on its stamps until 1910. It has issued one hundred and nine major varieties, with five different types

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($4, $5), Peru 1909, and Salvador, 1896 and 1921.

We look in vain for recognition of Columbus among the stamps of Italy, his native country, or of Spain, whose dominions he so greatly enlarged. Even the burst of philatelic enthusiasm for him, in the '90s, produced no echoes in the Old World. Alas, they had no Seebeck!

As early as 1474 Columbus is said to have corresponded with Toscanelli, the Florentine astronomer and map-maker. The Dominican Republic, in its commemorative issue of 1890-1900, has pictured Toscanelli on the 20 centavos stamp.

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of head. In point of numbers, Chile leads the list. Salvador comes next, with one hundred and two, while Nicaraugua is a poor third, with thirty. In all, I have counted three hundred and nineteen varieties of Columbians.

COLON EN LA JUNTA DE SALAMANCA

1899 I peso, Peru 1917 50c, and (perhaps)

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