COMMEMORATION STAMPS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23269, 11 February 1939, Page 9 (Supplement)

COMMEMORATION STAMPS

FOUNDING OF SWEDISH COLONY ' - Bv RONALD'YOUNGER GF LS and boys will like the new series of five attractive stamps recently issued by Sweden to commemorate the 300 th anniversary of the founding of the colony of New Sweden on the banks of the Delaware River, in America. • Illustrated is the 5 ore value, printed in green, which shows the Governor of the colony, Johan Printz, with the chieftain of the Indian tribe living near the place where the colony was established. On tlje 15 ore (red-brown) are r 1 ■» ■ muimimnhi shown the two 1 ships, the Kalman Nyckel and i the Fagel Grip, ; which set sail i from Gotben- ! burg in 1637, carrying the 1 colonising expedition. They travelled across ocean and up the Delaware River to the spot where the city of Wilmington now stands. lhe_ 20 ore 'red) stamp pictures the raising of Sweden's coat-of-arms in the New World f° r the first time. The remaining values of the series are 30 ore (blue), picturing the old Swedish Church in Wilmington, the oldest church in America in which services are 6t ill held every Sunday; and the (30 ore (marone), portraying Christina, Queen of Sweden from 1632 to 1054. U The colony of New Sweden was captured by the Dutch in 1655, and later il became one of the original Thirteen States of the United States. > ' The new stamps are all well designed a nd finely recess-printed. Copies are nou available in New Zealand