TWELVE DOLLARS. Vesta, Goddess of the Fireside, full robed in curved niche, with horizontally lined ground, and bordered by a colorless line. The left hand lifts her drapery; the right holds a burning lamp. Figures of value, "$12" in upper corners on tablets. Value, "_Twelve Dollars_" also in colorless letters on beaded frame beneath. Inscriptions, "_Newspapers_," "_Periodicals_," on solid (sic), italic letters on sides, and "_U. S. Postage_" in small white letters above. Frame of vertical lines. Color, rich green. TWENTY-FOUR DOLLARS. Goddess of Peace in curved niche, bordered by a colorless line, and on horizontally lined ground, a half naked figure leaning against a broken column. She holds in her right hand an olive branch, while her left grasps three arrows. The value, "_Twenty-four Dollars_" is in colorless letters beneath, on a solid tablet; also in figures "$24" in ornamented curves in upper corners. Inscriptions, "_U. S. Postage_" in white shaded letters above, and "_Newspapers_," "_Periodicals_" on the sides between which latter and each upper corner is a six-pointed star. The back ground is vertically lined. The ornaments bordered by a colorless line. Color, purplish shade. THIRTY-SIX DOLLARS. Figure representing Commerce, in full garments, in curved niche, bordered by a colorless line with hatched background. She holds in her left hand the _caduceus_, the winged rod of Mercury, in her right a miniature ship. Figures of value, "$36" in the upper corners and "_Thirty-six Dollars_" in ornamented capitals below, in two lines. Inscriptions, "_Newspapers_," "_Periodicals_," also in ornamented capitals on sides and "_U. S. Postage_" in colorless capitals above. The frame is vertically lined. Color, dull red. FORTY-EIGHT DOLLARS. Hebe, the Goddess of Youth, partly draped in curved niche with colorless border and horizontally lined ground. The right hand holds a cup, which she is offering to the eagle around whose neck is thrown her left arm. Shaded figures of value, "$48" on shields in the upper corners, the word "_Postage_" between in colorless capitals on solid label. The value, "_Forty-eight Dollars_" also in colorless letters below on solid ground, in curved ornaments. The letters "_U._" and "_S._" in colorless circles between the corners and side inscriptions, "_Newspapers_," "_Periodicals_," the latter being in colorless letters on solid curved labels. Frame vertically lined. Color, light brown.