The stamp-collector's review and monthly advertiser . ent effigies or other , in most cases, indicates a changeof a political nature in the country-issuing them. Again, we may ob-serve several varieties which were inuse some four or five years since, butare now obsolete in consequence oftheir being no longer issued Thiswould naturally give rise to the ques-tion— What could be the cause of acountry discontinuing a system sogenerally useful as thepostal system?On making a few enquiries, we findagain that political changes were thecause of this derangement, as in thecase of Modena, Na
The stamp-collector's review and monthly advertiser . ent effigies or other , in most cases, indicates a changeof a political nature in the country-issuing them. Again, we may ob-serve several varieties which were inuse some four or five years since, butare now obsolete in consequence oftheir being no longer issued Thiswould naturally give rise to the ques-tion— What could be the cause of acountry discontinuing a system sogenerally useful as thepostal system?On making a few enquiries, we findagain that political changes were thecause of this derangement, as in thecase of Modena, Naples, Parma,Romagna, Sicily, and Tuscany, whichnow form part of the Kingdom ofItaly, and consequently no longerissue their own postage stamps. The postage stamps of France recallto our remembrance three importantpolitical changes in the history ofthat country. The first Frenchstamps were issued during the Re-public in 1849, the device being ason the coins of that period, the headof the goddess of Liberty. Of the20-cent stamp of this series we give. an engraving. In 1852 were issuedtwo new stamps of the values of 10and 25 cents, these only differ fromthose of the Republic in having thehead of President Louis Napoleonsubstituted for that of the simple alteration cannot fail toremind us of the time when PrinceLouis Napoleon made his first step togain the throne of France; and in1853, when were issued the firststamps of the Empire, we findthat he has acquired that position towhich he had so ardently aspired. Some striking incidents in the his-tory of Naples may be gathered froma slight examination of its postagestamps, In 1857 were issued thosetruly singular stamps, having for thedevice the Bourbon arms, and all ofwhich are printed in one color, lake;(we append an engraving of the 2grani stamp of this emission). Thesestamps were in circulation until 1860,
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