A fifty-cent and a twenty-five cent stamp, for two Cape of Good Hope stamps.

William R. Carmer,
Mount Vernon, Westchester County, N. Y.


Fine samples of gold ore, showing the stages of concentration or separation of quartz from the precious metal, for rare postage stamps. In answering, correspondents will please specify stamps.

Dwight Marfield,
Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio.


Postmarks.

Mary B. Reed,
Norwich, Chenango County, N. Y.


A piece of the first Atlantic cable for an American copper cent of 1799, or the half-cent of 1836, 1843, or 1852; or one Spanish and one English coin and two French coins for the American twenty-cent piece of 1877 or 1878.