STAMP CURIOSITIES.
America's keenest amateur philatelist is President Roosevelt, who spends at least an liour each clay with his magnifying glass and albums, and has concentrated particularly on China. But he has aW> acquired a complete set of British Coronation issues. So great was the demand for these that one British firm alone bought £00,000 worth and posted 750.000 to the world's buyers (says ".News Review"). •Strange factors make stamps valuable. Uganda's first stamps were patiently picked out on a typewriter by a missionary. A Venezuelan stamp is marked five centimos on one side and 25 on the other. On a 1934 Czechoslovakian issue music was printed on the back; 15 put together made the National Anthem, Latvian issues have been printed on the backs of Orman maps, cigarette paper and unfinished banknotes. Tt has never been explained why an issue hrousrht out in Serbia after Alexander I.'s assassination revealed when held upside down a perfect death mask of the murdered monarch.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 3, 5 January 1938, Page 6
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