Daily camera., 1899-01-21
POSTAGE PORTRAITS.
Some of the Latest That Have Been
Put in Use.
The Faces OF Child MOnarchs GrAos
Number of Foreign Stamps
-4Ome valuable Speci-


Among the new postage stamps which
are destined to be very popular-aslde
from their commercial value-is one
Of the princess of Wales, the first time
thefeatures of this royal lady have been
designed in this way. The compliment
is paid her by one Of the royal English
colonies, newfoundland. and the United
States has finger in the pie, as the
beautifully engraved pink stamp was
made by the Banknote Engraving COM
pany of New York. An earlier issue
includes the prince of Wales, in the
same pleasing color, and his portrait
and that of the princess form compan-
ion stamps of the requisite value to
carry letter to any part of Europe or
America, his being a two-cent stamp,
while that of her royal highness, his
wife. is three-cent stamp, the combi-
nation making the necessary tive-cent
postage.
Out there are others, and among
these is the new stamp portrait of the
queen of England, as she looks now
an her dignfied age, and in her widows
cap: one-cent green stamp, also is
sued by Newfoundland. and with it an
other and younger scion of the royal
family makes his bow to an admiring
public from the face of a lavender
stamp, the little son of the duke of
York, and the heir apparent to the
Rritish throne. Before me as | write
is letter from the general post office,
Newfoundland, registered, and post
paid, with a one-cent green Victoria
stamp, two 1R-cent stamps of her
little great-grandson, the small duke
of York. and pink three-cent
stamp of her gracious majesty daugh-
law, the princess of Wales. Quite
a family gathering for the conveyance
of one letter, and unique feature
of postage portraiture, not surpassed
in any age or country. T
Children's faces are not unknown on
stamps, the little queen of Holland, as
her Dutch majesty has been called un-
til recently. being a familiar sight to
her subjects on the postage stamps Of
the Netherlands. But the little queen
has shot up into womanhood, and her
childish pictures, representing little
girl with flowing hair and straight
bangs, are not representative of a
crowned queen, so she will have new
postage stamp made-indeed, has al
ready done so, but withdrew it from
circulation because she did not like
either the expression or the pose. Any
one who has received one OF these for
hidden stamps can sell it for three
dollars. In few years it will be price
less.
Little Wilhelmina was not the only
royal child on postage stamp-there
Is he boy king of Spain, Alfonso Kill.
and there was a stamp bearing the i'm
age of the young king OF Siam. | do
| not recall any other postage likenesses
OF little kings and queens, but may
| have overlooked some. In these in
! stances the portraiture was not re-
stricted to postage stamps, but ap-
reraed also Oh the coin of the realm.
Perhaps good reason why no image of
| the child Victoria of England is found
on postage stamps of the past is the
| fact that stamps were not in use until
lS40. when that gracious lady was a
| crowned sovereign. Her youthful
features taken then have remained the
same until this present. issue of her
face in later years. Time stood still
| with the bonny young queen OF the
| postage stamp.