Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-21
THE BRAZILIAN GAME.
A Consignment of U. ;. Stamps ReCeiYed
From Germany.
FROM Tie 50. Louis Republican.

From the 50. Louis Republican.
A few days since the senior partner in
the firm OF l.. W. Brooch q Co., dealers
in postage stamps for the use of philatil-
lists, brought to the United States District
Attorney lot of United States stamps
just received from Leuf Bros, Leipsic.
They were of the newspaper and periodi-
cal kind of stamps, of the denominations
2. 3, 4, 6, 8, 8, II, "A, sc, 4S, 90, y, "a, 80
cents, 81 96, SO, So, SO, $12, $24, $3.50, $4S,
$50, and there were ten of each denOmina
ton. Across the face of each stamp, in
clear, though exceedingly small letters,
appeared the word Fac-Simile" Mr..
Brooch said they had been sent to him by
the Leipsic dealer as samples, and that
on their arrival, he had been so struck
with their strong resemblance to the or
iginal; that he had determined to secure
the opinion of the United states authOrI-
ties before proceeding with their sale.
fearing that they might be treated as
cOunterfeits, Notwithstanding the printed
letters upon them. Mr.. smith, the Assist
ant District Attorney, when they had been
presented to him. at once pronounced
them as illegal, and their sale as cul pable.
The word fac-simile" did not change
buclI CudI dCl6I3 as. MISUNDERSTANDING us
presence, the stamps might be used TO de-
fraud, and were plainly a duplicate of OBJ
legations of the United Subsistence
within the law. The newspaper and Pc
riodical stamps range in denomination
from &c. to $50, and are used only by post
masters in making their quarterly re-
turns of postage paid on secOnd-class
mail matter. When a large publishing
| house, as, for instance, newspaper pub
I 10 Ia to aaI To no
is weighed and an account of its weight
charged against the publisher. When
the publisher pays this account newspa-
| per stamps of an amount equal to the ac-
count are Cancelled by the postmaster
and pasted upon the stubs I'm the book con-
tanning the record of the night mail mat
| ter deposited each day. At the end of the
! quarter these stub-books are sent to
| Washington and the postmaster is re-
! quired to account for the amount of
money represented by the stamps. The
instructions of the Postmaster General to
/ pOstmasters is that these stamps are to
| be punched, but these instructions are not
! insisted upon, and many country post
masters, saying the department does not
provide them with punch, simply cancel
the periodical stamps in the same way
they cancel ordinary letter stamps. In
| certain ways the stamps sent over here
| by Leuf Bros. might be traudulently used,
for the word ''fac-simile'' might be
punched out, or stroke of pen, or
blurred ink mark may be made to hide it
completely. Post Office inspector Brad
bury Williams pronounced the fac SMILES
excellent reproductions, differing from
the originals only in the superior engrav-
ing upon the duplicates and the slightly
ligh err color OF some of the stamps. He
Immediately made report of the matter
m faf In
this government will at once communi-
| cate with the American Minister in Ber-
lin to stop the manufacture OF the spuri-
Gus stamps.