Portugal Cameos

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Got this book in the mail today -- $5 postpaid off ebay from ThriftBooks.

Portugal: the Cameo Stamps, by Fred J. Melville (1911)
Everything you wanted to know about the first issues of Portugal, from 1853-1884 (and reprints up to 1905)

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The above pictured stamps are examples off of the internet. Here are two examples I purchased, and received today.

Portugal, Scott Nr 6 (1855) Straight hair.



Portugal, Scott Nr 9 (1856) Curly hair.

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Here is Scott Nr 10 (1866)
Like #9, above, the king has curly hair, as opposed to the (more or less) straight hair of #6.
Also, in #s 9 and 10, the full curve of the helix of the ear is visible. In #6, the hair obscures the top of the helix.