NEW POSTAGE STAMPS
A new issue of. pictorial postage stamps was released recently by the Postmaster-General of Curacao, the Dutch possession in the Caribbean. Each value shows, besides the portrait of Queen Wilhelmina. a view of one of the islands of the Curacao group, as follows: 1 cent, a view of Bonaire; li-cent, of St. Eustatius; 2-cent, of Saba; 21-cent, of St. Maarten; 5-cent, of Aruba; 6-cent, of Curacao. Special stamps, commemorating the birth of Princess Margriet, will be issued in the near future. These stamps, of which the value will be H, 2i, 6 and 10 cents for Curacao, and 2i, 73-, 15 and 40 cents for Surinam (Dutch Guiana), will show all members of the Netherlands Royal Family.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 80, 5 April 1943, Page 4
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