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Last of the issues which I now chronicle, we come to 
the provisionals of 1862 (fig 4.) 
These stamps have type-set borders, 
with name and full value round a lineal 
central square, containing the post- 
master's initials in black, red or white 
ink. They are printed in black on 
Fig. 4- coloured paper and rouletted. These 
make-shifts are known to exist with six varieties of border, 
viz. : — pearl boarder, crossed ovals, grapes, quatre-foil, 
fleurs-de-lis, and a fancy pattern. Some of them bear the 
words Guiana and British misspelt Cuiana and Briiish. 
Now, however much some people may laugh at stamp 
collecting, they cannot get over the important fact that 
some of these ugly smudged pieces of paper possess a 
considerable market value. Previous to 1876, only two 
complete sets of the above mentioned stamps were 
known to exist, one in the magnificent collection of 
Baron ROTHSCHILD, (Paris) the other in the collection of 
Mons. J. B. MOENS of Brussels. The market value of each 
set was £150 ! The 1850 yellow and pink, and the 1856 
yellow stamps were then considered quite unattainable, 
and this certainly still holds good as regards the 1850 
pink, if not in regard to all. The others were only a 
degree less difficult to procure, but since 1879 have 
fallen somewhat in value. 
In that year a firm of stamp-dealers advertised in the 
colonial press for these stamps, offering large sums, when 
addressed by letter on the subject, for some particularized 
specimens. The result was that old boxes of papers in 
banks and offices both in Demerara and Berbice were 
