Taile-dousé. Sun, represented with eyes, nose, and mouth. Thirty-six bright rays round the sun. The “gridiron” in the upper part of shield has six bars, and the beginning of a seventh. All the values from slightly varying types. Postmark of thick parallel bars, with figure in center.

Engraved in épargne (?), machine perforated 13, very clear. There are six white bars across the wing of each of the birds in the top comers, two of the bars being rather fainter than the rest. The words, DOS REALES, are nearer the top than the bottom of ‘ the containing label. In the head-dress of the female, the two feathers on each side of the central one come outside of the shaded oval, right across the white boundary line, and just touch the colored line outside it. The outer tail-feathers of the birds, hanging down nearly to the bottom of the stamp, are stumpy at the ends, the left one especially. The tail of the 2 in the right-hand corner comes very near the right-hand outline of the little scroll which contains it. It will be noticed that I have put a note of interrogation after the description of the mode of printing; but the fact is, that, having only a very poor genuine specimen to describe from, it is difficult to say whether it is an engraving, or a lithograph.