Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1907 — WORLD POSTAGE STAMPS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WORLD POSTAGE STAMPS.

Five Million Issued and Will Soon , Be on Sale Here. Five millions of the new international postage stamp, agreed upon last year at the Rome postal congress, will soon be issued, and will be on sale in the United States thereafter. The stamp was designed by M. Eugene Grasset of Paris, and is being printed in Switzerland. The stamp is really a coupon, measuring nearly four by three inches. The vignet represents the figure of a goddess as a messenger of peace from one hemi--sphere to another. The coupon may be

exchanged for a regular 5-cent stamp or one of equivalent value in any of the countries that have accepted the agreement. This will allow any one writing to a foreign country to inclose a stamp for return postage. There is no doubt that it will also be used in a small way as an international money order. The countries that have entered into the agreement are: The United States, Great Britain, France. Germany, Austria, Belgium, Spain, British colonies, French colonies, Egypt, Mexico, Bosnia-Herzego-vina, Sweden, Switzerland, Roumania, Japan, Siam, Korea, Greece, Italy, Chile, Costa Rica, Crete, Denmark, Lukemburg and Norway.

INTERNATIONAL POSTAGE STAMP.