| II: THE
SECOND ISSUE |
| The second
issue was introduced to replace the
first issue with name of the country and the value in English and with
Arabic
numerals in April 1887. The stamps had
a full face portrait of King Chulalongkorn enclosed in an oval
horse-shoe
shaped frame with an inscription in Siamese around the side and the top
reading
“Postage and Revenue Siam”.
The value of the stamp was inscribed in
Siamese on the left tablet of the stamp, with an Arabic numeral in the
right
tablet and an English inscription between the two value tablets “Siam
Postage
& Revenue” in three lines. The
second issue stamps were on “Chakr” watermarked paper with one symbol
per stamp |
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| The second
issue stamp. |
The “Chakr”
watermark. |
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| 1887 cover
from Bangkok to London bearing 12 atts, the foreign letter rate, tied
by
Bangkok P PAID with stars cds dated 17 October 1887 |
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Classic Siam: The
Early Years (2 of 5) |
Page 2 of 45 |
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