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Her Majesty's Mails
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William Lewins
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FOOTNOTES:
[170]
Fournier.
[171]
Vide
Quarterly
Review
for
October,
1839.
[172]
Report
of
Select
Committee
on
Postage,
vol.
iv.
p.
391.
[173]
Hand
Catalogue
of
Postage-Stamps,
p.
6.
[174]
Dr.
J.
E.
Gray.
[175]
The
Mulready
envelopes
are
regarded
as
great
curiosities
by
stamp-collectors,
and
as
their
value
rose
to
about
fifteen
shillings,
a
spurious
imitation
found
its
way
into
the
market,
usually
to
be
had
at
half
a
crown.
In
1862,
stamp-dealers
were
shocked
by
the
Vandalism
of
the
Government,
who
caused,
it
is
said,
many
thousands
of
these
envelopes
to
be
destroyed
at
Somerset
House.
[176]
Our
colonies
issue
their
own
stamps,
with
different
designs.
Some
of
them
are
emblematical;
the
Swan
River
Territory
using
the
design
of
a
"Swan,"
and
the
Cape
of
Good
Hope
choosing
that
of
"Hope"
reclining;
but
they
are
gradually
adopting
the
English
plan
of
a
simple
profile
of
the
sovereign.
The
portrait
of
our
Queen
appears
on
two
hundred
and
forty
varieties
of
stamps.
Nearly
all
those
used
in
the
colonies,
and
even
some
for
foreign
governments,
are
designed,
engraved,
printed,
and
embossed
in
London,
and
many
of
them
are
much
prettier
than
the
products
of
our
own
Stamp-Office.
The
principal
houses
for
the
manufacture
of
colonial
stamps,
are
Messrs.
De
la
Rue
&
Co.
and
Perkins,
Bacon,
&
Co.
of
Fleet
Street.
See
also
Dr.
Gray's
Handbook,
p.
8.
[177]
"An
Abstract
of
Grants
for
Miscellaneous
Services."
Sums
voted
in
supply
from
1835
to
1863
inclusive,
moved
for
by
Sir
H.
Willoughby.
In
the
same
return
we
find
7,000l.
were
paid
for
"Foudrinier's
paper-machinery"--we
presume
for
the
manufacture
of
Mulready's
envelopes.
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