OUR STAMP CORNER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 99, 29 April 1933, Page 2 (Supplement)

OUR STAMP CORNER.

In this column questions relating to philately are answered, the column being published monthly or when sufficient questions have been received to warrant publication. TJie stamp queries should be submitted to the Witch Doctor in the usual way. Q.E.M. asks in what year English stamps were first issued. —Stamps in England were first issued in May, 1840. L.S.D. wants the value of a British Empire Exhibition lid stamp, which bears $ postmark. —The catalogue value of this stamp is sd.

STAMP ALBUM encloses two stamps and ask* from which country they coin p. The brown stamp comes from Russia and the red one from Austria.

AMATEUR posts several stamps for valuation. —The Cape of Good Hope stamp is catalogued at 15/. All other issues submitted are worth about Id each.

INTERESTED would like to know the value of (a) a Cook Inland, red, Id stamp with a Cook Island woman on it. This woman has a white feather in her hair. The original stamp has no feather, (b) An Australian kookaburra stamp. This is n (id issue, with a bird perched on a branch, with the word "kookaburra" underneath it.—-(a) This stamp is not a special issue, the "feather" being caused by a faulty plate. Only one stamp in each sheet is printed thus. The stamp is worth a trifle more than the ordinary issue.