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Show POSTAGE STAMPS IN HISTORY Scruples That Seem Amusing Entertained Enter-tained by Royalties Whose Pictures Pic-tures Were Used. The English post office announcement announce-ment invalidating all the stamps issued in Queen Victoria's reign affected a considerable number of varieties. From a table published not long ago la L'Echo de la Timbroglogie, the French philatelic journal, It appears that no fewer than 3,193 different Victorian, stamp portraits had been issued up to-the to-the end of 1909. King Edward figures upon 1,080 different stamps. Outside-the Outside-the ranks of royalty Bolivar tops the list with 213 stamps, or nearly twice as many as Columbus, who has been represented 119 times. When postage stamps first came in- ' to use, some people urged that the effigy of majesty is too sacred to serve, as a label for letters, the Manchester Guardian observes. "Have you seen the stamps yet?" wrote' one ardent loyalist in 1840. "This is the greatest insult offered the queen." King Ferdinand Ferdi-nand of Sicily had a special postmark manufactured in the shape of a frama, so that stamps could be obliterated without his portrait being struck by the postal officials. The smaller th monarch the more he has to worry about his majesty. |
