PURCHASE OF STAMPS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 99, 29 April 1933, Page 11

PURCHASE OF STAMPS.

PHIIATEMC RARITIES.

Stamp lovers will be to learn that one of the finest collections of New Zealand and Pacific Islands stamps in the Dominion has recently changed hands. The collection wasJhe property of an Auckland resident, Mrs. J Kenderdine, and the purchaser is Sir. A. Brodie, philatelist, third floor, Hellaby's Buildings, Queen Street. Collectors throughout the world have sighed for some of the rarities gracing this valuable lot of stamps, particularly among the section devoted to first type New Zealands, popularly known as fiu»faces. Among the many outstanding pieces is a superb used pair of the first stamp issued in the colony, the penny dull carmine of 1855, and there is an equally fine pait the elusive No. 7, the penny dull orange on star watermarked paper. This stamp, though not so well known, is comparable in rarity to the famous Post Office penny of Mauritius, a single copy _of which, on the original envelope, sold in London last month for £2400. Another piece to excite philatelic envy is a very fine pair of penny brown on paper watermarked N.Z., priced by Stanley Gibbons at £150, while the much-prized pelures and unofficial perforations are in wonderful condition and present a splendid array -of philatelic gems. Worthy of special mention also is a magnificent copy of the extremely rare red orange fourpenny, a very few copies of which exist, as the result of imperfect cleaning of the plate when the colour of this stamp was changed from to yellow. Among the scarce items in the latter New Zealand issues is a magnificent block of ten of the five shillings pictorial showing mixed perforations. The collection of Tongan stamps in the purchase is world-famed, and esteemed to be the finest in existence of the island kingdom, being complete in all the rarities, while eye-openers in the Samoan section include the rare one shilling G.R.I, and the double overprint of the three shillings G.R.I. Collectors of Cook Island stamps would be amazed at the marvellous display of double, {treble, sideways and inverted overprints ' of the crown surcharge. '• The whole collection, in brief, teems Iwith philatelic properties which are the despair of the average collector. —(Ad.)