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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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It
only
remains
to
refer
for
a
moment
to
the
timbromanie,
or
stamp
mania.
The
scenes
in
Birchin
Lane
in
1862,
where
crowds
nightly
congregated,
to
the
exceeding
annoyance
and
wonderment
of
policeman
X--where
ladies
and
gentlemen
of
all
ages
and
all
ranks,
from
Cabinet-ministers
to
crossing-sweepers,
were
busy,
with
album
or
portfolio
in
hand,
buying,
selling,
or
exchanging,
are
now
known
to
have
been
the
beginnings
of
what
may
almost
be
termed
a
new
trade.
Postage-stamp
exchanges
are
now
common
enough;
one
held
in
Lombard
Street
on
Saturday
afternoons
is
largely
attended.
Looking
the
other
day
in
the
advertisement
pages
of
a
monthly
magazine,
we
counted
no
fewer
than
sixty
different
dealers
in
postage-stamps
there
advertising
their
wares.
Twelve
months
ago,
there
was
no
regular
mart
in
London
at
which
foreign
stamps
might
be
bought;
now
there
are
a
dozen
regular
dealers
in
the
metropolis,
who
are
doing
a
profitable
trade.
About
a
year
ago,
we
witnessed
the
establishment
of
a
monthly
organ
for
the
trade
in
the
Stamp-collector's
Magazine;
at
this
present
moment
there
are
no
less
than
ten
such
publications
in
existence
in
the
United
Kingdom.
England
is
not
the
only
country
interested
in
stamp-collecting.
As
might
be
expected,
the
custom
originated
in
France,
and
has
prevailed
there
for
a
number
of
years.
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