These stamps are printed from ivory blocks, the design slightly varying for each value. They are on very thin or pelure paper, and on rather stouter paper, making two sets. The 3 Candareens is, however, only found on the stouter paper, so far as we have been able to discover. The paper being so thin, the blocks have left a slightly sunken impression; so that the lettering appears more or less raised on the back of the stamps. This is not so in the forgeries, which are lithographed and perfectly smooth. The stop after L . ( Shanghai L.P.O.) is rather large, and close to the L., almost touching it. The longest spike of the dragon’s tail touches the outer line of design (not of border) in every case. The lines dividing the framework do not touch the borders, neither do they correspond with each other.