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HE annexed engraving represents one of the famous Stamps which the British Government ordered to be affixed to deeds, promissory notes, etc., in the American Colonies, the resistance to which imposition was the preliminary step to our Declaration of Independence; and hateful as its sight may have been to our forefathers, Americans of the present day should regard it, on account of the glorious Revolution which it produced, with a feeling of admiration. The original of our engraving exists in the rooms of the Connecticut Historical Society, at Hartford, to which Association it was presented by James Brown, Esq. It was received by Mr. Brown from his brother, Wm. Brown, Esq., M. P., of London. The following memorandum accompanied the donation:-"John Woods, Esq., Chairman of the Inland Revenue, London, found a box of these stamps in August, 1850, being a part of those issued and prepared to send to America. The act compelling their use in the colonies after the 1st of Nov., 1766, being resisted, led to the independence of the United States." Description. This stamp is composed of two pieces of paper, each impressed on one side, and pasted together, back to back. On one is the crown, with the initials G. R. and figure 3, and a double cipher of G. R. underneath. On the upper right-hand corner is the number of the stamp. This is on white paper, and is printed from a copper-plate in the ordinary way. The other side is properly a stamp, impressed not very deep yet quite distinctly, by a die, on blue paper. It contains a crown, with the word America at the top, and two shillings six pence-the value of the stamp-at the bottom. |