A CURIOUS STAMP
Among the £2,000,000 worth of stamps displayed at th.c London Exhibition was one of the most traffic of all stamps, the "Death Stamp" of Serbia issued in 1904 to commemorate the accession'of .King Peter 1. The assassination of Kinir Alexander and Queen Dragu 1 prepared the way for accession, and, in a .curious way. the new stamps bore the portrait of the murdered monarch. A French en-Ki-aver prepared the dcsiyji from the original executed by a Serbian artist; it showed the profiles of the 'founder of the''dynasty and of King Peter. When the stamps were released at the time of the latter's coronation, it was discovered that the" design contained the death musk of King'Alenxander. When the .stamps were inverted the single head could be traced in, the reversed features of the two. It was a most skilful and subtle introduction. The engraver denied this, and the mystery has never been solved,
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 33, 8 August 1923, Page 14
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155A CURIOUS STAMP Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 33, 8 August 1923, Page 14
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