SIMON BOLIVAR

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 119, 23 May 1925, Page 16

SIMON BOLIVAR

TvTiLL.KKOWN FIGURE ON POST AGE STAMPS.»

Apart from the Sovereigns of our ownEmpire and of Spain and, prior to 1911 Portugal, the celebrity who has been portrayed most frequently, on postage stamps is Simon Bolivia, states Fred J Melville in the -Daily Telegraph." With a record of about SCO different straps, boarmiT good .bad. and. indifferent por--nnt °O hG lberf°r, he leaves.Chrisfcnphqi Cohimhus a long way behind We ofe?k hl,lP f lcturlT the st™Ps of most of the States which owed their indepentu y ago Venezuela, Colombia—particularly the State of Bolivar^olvia .Ecwdop and Peru. The last named has jus* celebrated-the centenary' of the battle of Ayacucho ,„ a serie? o{ c - h( . stamps, all showing- a small but finelyengraved portrait of Bolivar These stamps, authorised under a de--2 centavos, olive-green (750,6G0)- 4 cenblack' aKM^^; 5 ™**™, Black (HX>,OOO ; 10 ccntavos, red (3,000 - («^,OGO) :• 50 ce.nta.vos, pnrplo (85,000); tess^^r Clßmu 2 *■«• .11-is staled in th e decree that the stamps will circulate concurrently with another .ss-ae, authorised on 24tVMarch Usl, .and-bearing a portrait'gallery of other heroes.of-« 10 independence. So far « the Ayacncho commemorative issue is eoneerned up further supplies will be ppnted but of the other series it is announced that it-will constitute tne n P w permanent;- serie,, of Peruvian stamps. The portraits and. firrt quantities orderst« *r W ---as (= A! TJ.Lefruia. (8,030,000) • 20 .cenfci.Tc.il, deep W M , J. Olaya. (BOO.OOO) : bright purple, Bel lido (800.: COO ;J, so. deep brown, p. g aco 160 . The iiidependence of P P ru was prolii'J: S.-XlK.'S^'-the Spaniards of Ayacucho made the eroancipatjon a. reality. Tho \cU-Cl leader of the victprs in this tttlfwa Oenera Anton,o de Sucre, whom one might have ejected to see on at least one of the stamps of Pen,. His clarion call to his very mixed 6000 troops is historic : -Upon what we do to-day deponds the destiny- of South America " Venezuela, which 1,a 3 also commenjorated lljp centenary of Ayacucho od a 2S canbmos ultramarine stamp, presents thq portraits of Bolivar and Sucre sideby side. Sucre's picture is fsmilinr to cnljeplp.rji on ;i few stamps of Bolivia Colombia, and Ecuador, and lie is not likely to be overlooked on the stamp? now-preparing for. the centenary of th« independence of Bolivia, which occurs thifi yeaTi _