Sharp County record., 1899-03-03
POSTAGE PORTRAITS.
Some of the Latest That Have Been
Put in Use.
The Faces of Crud won-r~hs Grace
a Number of Foreign Ft"mns
Some suiunnf" sne"I-


ms0e,
Among therew postage -'ampswhtrh
are destined to- DE very aapu.ar-as.aa
from their commercial ra.r.-Is one
of the princess of Wales. the first Time
thefeatures ofthis7oya. lady have been
designed i1 Tins way. I0ec.mn."@'6
is paid her by one of the ruFa. .nEa@'
colonies. Newloml.maar. taa United
States has a finger I'm the pie, 7s the
beautifully engraved pink stamp was
made by the Banlnore Engraving conf
pany of New York. tu earlier issue
includes the prince of Wales, iu the
same pleasing color and h.a portrait
and that of the epriucess form acnrau-
ion stamps Of tae requisite value TO
carry % letter TO amy pag. oI Europe or
America. his being q rw9-oant s,amo,
while that Of her royal uIganess, MS
wife. is q threec5ut stamp, the c7mni-
nation making the necessary -yc-c2nt
postage.
out there are others and among
these is the new stamp por.ra.tof the
queen of England as she looks noW
in her dieutGed age and iu her".aow IS
cap; 0ue-oant green stamp, also .s-
sued by Newfoundland and w.Caita0-
other and younger scion of the royal
family makes his bow 10 am adUrHT
public from the face Of a lavender
stamp, the little son of the duke of
York and the heir apparent to the
British throne Before me as ! write
is a letter from the general post Office
Newfoundland, registered, and post
paid. with q ouc-cent green Victoria
stamp. two DECENT stamps of her
little great-grandsou, the maIl duke
of York, and a pink tarae-cea'
stamp of her gracious majesty danrh-
ter-in-law. the princess Of Wales. Quite
family gathering for the conveyance
of one letter, and % unique feature
of postage portraiuTe, not surpassed
in any age or country.
ChiIdren's faces are not unknown on
stamps, the little queen of Holland, as
her Dutch majesty has been called un-
til recently, being q familiar sight to
her subjects on the postage stamps of
the Netherlands Bgt tae Iit.o queen
has shot up into womauh0ol, and a.r
childish pictures, representing q little
girl with flowing hair and straight
bangs, are not representative Of a
crowned queen, so she win have a new
postage stamp made-inde5d. has al
ready done so, but withdrew ig from
circulation because she did not like
either the expression or the pose. Any
one who has received one Of these for
.bidden stamps can sell it for three
dollars. In few years it will be price
less.
Little Wilhelmina was not he only
royal child on a postage sJawp-.Jhcr1
is the boy king Of Spain, Alfonso XIII,
and there was a stamp bearing lhe .n-
age Of the young King Of SIAM I do
not recall amy other postage iEenesses
of little kings and queens, 5ut may
have overlooked ome I'm these In
stances the porraItlre was moi re-
stricted to postage stamps, but ap-
peraed also ON lde coin of Jhe realm.
Perhaps q good reason why 800 lmar of
the child Victoria of England is found
on postage stamps of the past is She
fact that stamps were not iu use until
1870, when that gracious lady WAS %
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 bdnoy young queen Of the
postage stamp
The literature Of the postage stamp
should interest many others besides tue
stamp collector and .heamoteur Gran.
who makes himself obnoxious 30 hia
friends by begging their lorcIgustamPs
before they dara read their Letters"
The fad is spasmodic, like measles or
Group and is gone aud over with sud-
denly. During The war JUST ended the
Cuban stamps and those Of The Philip
pine islands were treasured and 80
was decided thatnomo issues would
be made, aud, as one enthusiast saId'
ON % hundred years thoy would be
worth money" I01 denominations
come from the Philippines When thc
Greek war was ou the fruit vendors
on The street corners were Jormgutad
for stamps and ae'Js9jd To- their orcd-
IL theyrespooaod generously, ,hcUrces
stamp during THAT m.auaOup'rOod o,
King Georges reign being p.Uggd
curcIy ON The central 1ap OF Iha ou.
yclopc, much 90 HhgainU.t of ,hewaU.
ing clerks, who had TO- maE. special.
movements 60 stamp The mu..I.uH
Greek kings aouoD count an 0harHosf-
age, but ancient wrosnera throwing
The discus philosophers and ao..u.
with classic characters, c.o for pore
trWtwe.- Chicago Tima..IIora.d.
Development af ur philippines.
There Is % highly fertile region 100
around. with 10 Urme and active UOnU'a.