Show POSTAGE STAMPS IN HISTORY scruples Scruple i that seem Amuan fl enter bained by royalties lei whose pie pic turea were used the english post office announcement invalidating all the stamps issued in queen VIct victorias orlis reign affected 9 a considerable number ot at varieties from a table published not long ion s BRO ago la im lecho de la the french philatelic journal jo Jq urpal it appears that no fewer than alf different forent victorian stamp portraits had bad been issued up to the end of 1909 king edward figures upon boso different dlCe rent stamps outside the rank of royalty bolivar tops the list with stamps or nearly twice as many as columbus who has been represented times when postage stamps first came into use some people urged that tho the effigy of majesty Is too sacred to serve serva as asa A label for letters the manchester guardian observes have billave you seen the stamps yet wrote one ardent loyalist in 1840 1810 this Is the greatest insult offered the queen king ferdinand of sicily had a special postmark manufactured in the shape or of a frame so that stamps could be obliterated without hla his portrait being struck by the postal officials the smaller the monarch the more he has to worry about his majesty |