TWELVE CENTS. Head of Washington, similar to the ten cents, on an oval disk, with rectangularly hatched ground, bordered by a colorless line and exterior fine colored line. Broad frame of engine turned colorless lines on a solid ground, with rounded corners and waved edges, bordered by a colorless line, and a fine colored line. The corners are filled out with loops on colored ground. "12" and "12" set diagonally in the upper corners, "_U. S. Postage_" following the curve of the oval above, "_Twelve Cents_" in double curve line below, and "_U._" and "_S._" in the lower corners. The letters and numerals are colorless, with colored outlines on the engine turned work of frame. Plate impression, 19½ by 24½ mm., in color, on white paper, perforated 12. 12 cents, black. TWENTY-FOUR CENTS. Small portrait of Washington, faced three quarters to the right, on a rectangularly hatched ground, surrounded by a fancy lozenge-shaped frame of engine turned colorless lines on solid colored ground, bordered by a colorless line and exterior fine colored line. The upper corners are filled out with foliated ornaments, containing the numerals "24" and "24," set diagonally with 3 colorless stars between. The lower corners each contain a large colored star between foliated ornaments. "_U._" on the left and "_S._" on the right star; "_U. S. Postage_" above and "_Twenty-four Cents_" below the head, near and following the outer curve of frame. The letters, numerals and ornaments are all colorless, but with colored outlines. Plate impression, 19½ by 24 mm., in color, on white paper, perforated 12. 24 cents, lilac. THIRTY CENTS. Head of Benjamin Franklin, in profile to left, on a circular disk with diagonally hatched ground, 16½ mm. in diameter, bordered by a colorless line and exterior fine colored line. A colorless line between two fine colored lines, at about 2 mm. from the circle, with foliated ends, forms a label above and below, the upper inscribed "_U. S. Postage_," the lower "_Thirty Cents_," on lined ground, in colorless letters outlined with color. Foliated ornaments without color, but colored outlines form irregular spaces in the corners, with "30" and "30" in the upper, "_U._" and "_S._" in the lower ones, in colorless letters outlined and heavily shaded in color on a lined ground. Plate impression, 20 by 24 mm., in color, on white paper, perforated 12. 30 cents, orange.