The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-16
NEW POSTAGE STAMPS.
A LARGE ORDER SENT FOR THE
SALT LAKE posi- OFFICE.

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They Are Said to be Very Handsome.
Surpassing in Beauty Amy Previ-l
ous Regular Issue-The Various
Denominations.
Within the next ten days Salt Lakes
postoffice will be supplied with largel
CONSIGNMENT of the new postage
stamps just adopted by the administra- /
ton. Postmaster Nash has just re-
ceived notification to the effect that his
recent requisition will be filled at once,
and the stamps should reach this office
by the GOTH This requisftion calls for
and a halfs supply, and as the stock
i of old postage emblems has now been
exhausted, Salt Lake will receive the
first of the new.
Ever since the first announcement
that the contract for printing all the
United States stamps had been trans
ferred from the contractors, the Amer
lean Bank Note company, who had
satisfactorily performed ii, for many
years, to the bureau Of engraving AMI
printing, the curiosity of the collectors
was at the highest tension to learn just
what the change signifed for them. Did
it mean an entirely new series of
stamps with new designs, new values,
new colors, ETC., or would rhe old
plates, which are the property OF the
government, simply be turned over tol
the bureau and be used for the produc-
ton of stamps no different from those
current since 1890? These were the
Questions that agitated the philatelic
portion of the country, who, by the
way, are today a considerable proper
ton of the population.
Information regarding the matter
was made public very gradually, and
bit by bit, but it is now definitely
/ known that such changes are to be
made in all the stamps as will give
collectors a complete new set of post
age, postage due and periodical stamps
THEY ARE VERY HANDSOME.
The new stamps are said to be very
handsome and surpass any heretofore
issued, except Perhaps the Columbian
series. The designs OF the 1890 issue
will be retained, with the exception of
small triangular ornament in each Of
the upper corners of the new stamps.
NEW DENOMINATIONS
From the 1890 set there will be drop
ped the 80 and 80 cent stamps and
there will be added to it stamps of the
denomination of so cents, 81, 81 and So,
making the 1894 issue consist of the
following values: 1, 2, 8, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, Is
and so cents, and 81 81 and S..
There will also be changes in the
, colors of some of the stamps but exact
information on this point is not yet
Forthcoming. 1t has been called to the
attention of the postmaster-gener
that at the meeting of the
International Postal Union at Paris,
in 1878, a recommendation was adopted
that all the powers represented there,
among which was, of course the Uni
ted States, should give uniform colors
10 stamps of certain denominations.
Inc stamps in general use for prepay
ing postage to foreign parts answer to
our 5-cent, and those for domestic post
age correspond in value to our l and
: 2-cent stamps. The colors decided ND
on are blue for the scent, green for the
l and red for the 2. The object of this
attempt at uniformity all over the
world is to simplify matters for trav-
: elers and immigrants who are not ia
miliar with the language of the coun-
; try IN which they may be living or So
Journing. Mum berless cases of annoy
ance and delay occur through the ig-
norance of foreigners in America who
do not understand English or our mon
etary system we'll enough to know
whether they are stamping their let
, ters to correspondents correctly or not;
GIN Gil QUlCh-WILlGu as Amerl-
cans are reDuted to be they are puzzled
in like mannerSWhen they go abroad.
1 1t is, therefore, likely that changes in
e colors to conform to this idea may be
1 instituted by the general.
: Thls would convert the 1-celt blue into
/ green and the scent brown INTO blue
t There is also possibility that action
Y may be taken looking to the issuance
t of what has popularity been described
S as the flag stamp, that is, a label bear
/ ing the design of the stars and stripes.
2 The new 50-cent stamp will bear a
4 portrait of Jefferson, the supposition
. being that there will be used for the
i design; the same drawing that appears
q on the current 9o-cent black. On the 81
4 stamp the portrait of Commodore Perry
s that now adorns the 90-cent orange
t will appear. The portrait of John Mar
: shall will be used for the 81 value and
t that of James Madison has been Sc
: lected for the SIS. What colors are to
5. be used for these new values is yet to
p be decided.
t Of the denominations that will thus
t become obsolete the 80 cent, the s cent
: and the cent will appreciate most
t rapidly in value as but comparatively
Y few of the 80 and 6 cents were used
e during their life, while the cent has
n had a life of but eighteen months, il
e having been first issued early in 1S9;
: to supply the need of a stamp of thai
If denomination when the registrat ior
e fee was reduced from 10 to cents.
s The present administration has also
e made somewhat radical change in the
h postage due stamps-those which are
e iplaced on letters when they are INSULT
l, lciently prepaid and for which the car.
l. rier usually collects. These have beer
If reduced in size SO as to be uniform ir
W this regard with the regular issue Of
e postage stamps. The color is more OF
l. la red than the old issue, and the de.
e sign has also been somewhat changed
e AS to the 80 and so cent stamps of the
IS --latest preceding issue of this series
i were in use but a very short time they
t, are likely to be rarities and will un.
h doubtedly soon command good prices
These stamps have been issued in foul
ldistinct shades of brown, all with a
tinge, more or less marked, of red ir
them. The last shade is known as the
''claret' issue, and it is the 80 and 81
e cent of this color that will be scarce
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