252 TlMEHRl. 
down a few interesting, veritable facts concerning its old 
postage stamps, I hope I shall not share the same fate as 
the before mentioned stamp collectors. 
It is only necessary to refer to the old issues of the 
colony's stamps, as those of later days, whether belong- 
ing to this or any other country, will never have a market 
value such as that of the specimen alluded to in the 
Times. Postage stamps have of late years been 
diligently hoarded by dealers and collectors, and from 
the existing thousands they cannot become scarce. But 
between 1840-60 philately was in its infancy, and stamps 
were destroyed simultaneously with the envelopes they 
franked. 
The issues I am about to speak about are then as 
follows : 
1850 issue (fig ij, name roughly printed in straggling 
circle, value in centre, black impres- 
sion on coloured paper. 
1. Four cents, primrose, (this was printed 
on tissue paper.) 
2. Two cents, pink 
3. Four „ chrome yellow 
4. Eight ,, green 
Fig. 1. 5. Twelve „ indigo 
6. Twelve „ clear blue. 
Of these there are certainly three types, possibly more. 
They are usually initialed in black ink, E. D. W., more 
rarely E. T. E. D,, and occasionally are without any 
such surcharge. They appear to have been more 
patronized in Berbice than in Dcmerara, the few specimens 
I have seen nearly all bearing the post-mark of the 
sistef county. 
