k, 10 cents; Rose,
Louise, and Mrs. P. B. Levy, Mignonette Karelson, Hattie M. Reidell, and
Johanna Girvins, $1; Edwin J. Roberts, 10 cents; Christine, Ada, and
Harry Norris, 30 cents; Paul Barnhart, 10 cents; Ursula Minor, $5;
Vincent V. M. Beede, 10 cents; Eileen M. Weldon, 10 cents; Florence E.
Cowan, 10 cents; Maud I. Wigfield, 10 cents; Jessie Alexander, $1; Kate
Sanborn, 10 cents; Two Friends, 30 cents; Allie and Julia Russell, 20
cents; Thacher H. Guild, 10 cents; Frederick G. Clapp, 10 cents; a
member, 10 cents; the Winship family, 50 cents; Mary D. and Belle A.
Tarr, 20 cents; Erwin F. Wilson, 10 cents; Charles E. Abbey, 10 cents;
Tom R. Robinson, 10 cents; Chauncey T. Driscol, $1; John C. Failing, 10
cents; Tracy French, 10 cents; J. Crispia Bebb, 25 cents; Christina R.
Horton, 25 cents; Adella Hooper, 10 cents; John H. Campbell, Jun., 10
cents; Lyle, Frances, and H. W. Selby, $1; Evelyn, Marianne, and Lyle
Tate, $1; Helen F. Little, 10 cents; Nellie Hazeltine, 25 cents; and
Addie Brown, 25 cents. Total, $17.65.

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This Department is conducted in the interest of stamp and coin
collectors, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question
on these subjects so far as possible. Correspondents should
address Editor Stamp Department.

Several correspondents have asked me about plate numbers on English
stamps, and also the meaning of the letters in the corners of the same
stamps. First, as to plate numbers. For many years the plate numbers on
English adhesive stamps were printed on the margin only, hence they were
cut off the imperforated sheets, and torn off the perforated sheets, and
are as scarce to-day as the early U.S. numbers. By reference to the one
shilling, 1865, illustrated below, the figure 1 is found on either side
of the portrait. This signifies that the stamp has been printed on plate
No. 1 of the one shilling. Of the higher values few plates were
required, but of the one-penny stamp about 150 plates were necessary. I
hope to give in an early number of the ROUND TABLE a fairly complete
list of the English one-penny stamp varieties, as now collected in
England. It will be very interesting to see how scientific
stamp-collecting has become.

[Illustration: 1840.]

[Illustration: 1855.]

[Illustration: 1862.]

[Illustration: 1865.]

As to the letters in the angles. The one penny and twopenny English
issued in 1840 had letters in the lower cor