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.
Mention has already been made of the "find" of a quantity of the suggestions submitted to the Treasury in 1839 as a result of the offer of prize-money. These, too, are within the scope of the stamp collection carried out on the thorough historical basis, but then nearly every item being unique designs in pen and ink, in crayon and watercolour, and with manuscript matter, they are not to enrich more than one collection at a time. Yet there may be others of a different kind, each in itself unique, to be had at some future timely frustration of a holocaust of waste-paper.
AUTOGRAPH LETTER FROM ROWLAND HILL TO JOHN DICKINSON, THE PAPER-MAKER, ASKING FOR SIX OR EIGHT SHEETS OF THE SILK-THREAD PAPER FOR TRIAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE ADHESIVE STAMPS.
The City Medal of William Wyon is closely associated with the history of our stamps, and used to be represented in my collection by a silver cliché, though it has now been replaced by the medal in silver. The medal is accessible to the collector in bronze, silver, or gold, but for most philatelic purposes a cliché showing only the obverse with the Queen's head is more convenient for mounting in the album, in a heavily sunk card, and protected with "glass" paper.
ONE OF THE ROUGH PENCIL SKETCHES BY W. MULREADY, R.A., FOR THE ENVELOPE.