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House & Garden 
The jubilee envelope, issued by Great Britain to commemorate the 
fiftieth anniversary of the advent of the postage stamp, shows the 
mail coach in 1840 and the train in 1890, the date of the issue 
Few collectors can ever hope to possess the twenty cent stamp of 
the St. Louis postmaster issued in 1845, and of which barely a 
dozen are known to exist at the present time 
Reading from the top 
down, we have a Chi¬ 
nese F.mpire stamp 
showing the Temple of 
Heaven, the Brazilian 
stamp picturing the 
liberator of America 
which includes the 
smallest known en¬ 
graved portrait of 
Washington, the Polish 
Republic stamp with 
Paderewski, the musi¬ 
cian turned statesmen, 
and finally an Hun¬ 
garian issue under the 
Bolshevik regime with 
a portrait of Dozsa 
The top stamp is the 
Swiss issue to com¬ 
memorate peace, the 
second is an example 
of a scenic stamp, a 
Malta, one farthing, 
showing the Harbor of 
Valetta. The Egyptian 
pictures the pylon of 
the Temple ej Karnak 
at Luxor and the Hun¬ 
garian Bolshevik has a 
portrait of Karl Marx 
In the so-called Mid- 
ready envelope of 1840 
Britannia is represented 
despatching h e r mes¬ 
sengers to all parts of 
the world — North, East, 
South and West. At 
the bottom the recipi¬ 
ents of the mail are 
pictured anxiously 
scanning the letters 
