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Show POSTAGE STAMPS IN HISTORY ' Scruples That Seem Amusing Enter talned by Royalties Whoso Pictures Pic-tures Wero Used. Tho English post offlco announce- ! ment Invalidating all tho stamps Issuod , in Queen Victoria's reign affected a. conslderablo number of variotlos. From j a tablo published not long ago In . I L'Echo do la Tlmbrogloglo, tho French philatelic Journal, it appoars that no fowcr than 3,193 different Victorian stamp portraits had boen Issued up to tho ond of 1909. King Edward figures upon 1,080 different stamps. Outsldo tho ranks of royalty Bolivar tops tho list with 213 stamps, or nearly twlco as many as Columbus, who has boon represented 119 times. , When postago stamps first camo Into In-to use, somo people urged that tho effigy of majesty is too sacred to sorVo as a labol for letters, tho Manchester ' Guardian observes. "Havo you seen tho stamps yet?" wroto ono ardent loyalist In 1840. "This Is tho greatest Insult offorcd the queen." King Ferdinand Ferdi-nand of Sicily had a special postmark ' manufactured in tho shape of a frame, bo that stamps could bo oblltoratod without his portrait being struck by tho postal officials. Tho smaller tho -monarch tho moro ho has to worry M about his majesty. yl |