Stamp Stories

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21908, 8 October 1936, Page 2 (Supplement)

Stamp Stories

(By R. J. G. Collins)

PHILATELIC MAPS—VI.

Whitfield King’s Standard catalogue, of which the 1937 edition has just been issued, always gives interesting details of the numbers of stamps issued. Of the major varieties, there have been 62,155. Europe heads the list with 19,727, Africa comes next with 13,657, followed by Asia with 11,280, America 10,822, West Indies 3594 and Oceania 3075.

was provided with a special issue by Chile, in 1010. The Guianas will always occupy a prominent place among stamp issuing countries because of the interest in the early issues of the British colony and in particular of the one cent of 1856, which is the world's most valuable stamp. French Guiana or Cayenne is famous as the location of celebrated French penal settlements, including Devil’s Island. Because the climate of the penal settlements on the coast has been

Of - the 10,822 which have come from the American continent, the greater proportion have been issued in South America,

In view of this it is rather surprising that few countries had these issues; but the commerooration of historical events has been much favoured by them, An inset to this map shows a division of part of Colombia, because for some years it was the practice of certain of these provlnces to issue separate staihps. Tierra del Fuego, which is SpanIsh for “Land of Fire,” will pro. bably not be familiar as a stampissuing place. Only one stamp, of the value of 10 Cents, was issued, in 1891 for use on correspondence from the island to the mainland, Juan Ferfiandez Island, familiarly known as Robinson Crusoe Island,

very unhealthy, a new settlement has been established inland, and this territory, which is known as Jnini, was in 1932 placed under separate administration and was provided with a separate issue of stamps!. , , , „ _ ... Great care has been taken in checking these maps and yet there was an error in number five. The Hawaiian Islands were shown in capital letters, whereas the name should have been in small letters, as separate stamps were last issued in 1899 and since 1900 the stamps of the UF A. have been used without distinguishing over-print.