Stamp Stories

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22877, 25 November 1939, Page 4 (Supplement)

Stamp Stories

A PHILATELIC ENGYCLOPAEDIAr-

Seebeck: N. F. Seebeck, an American, in 1890 entered into a cbntract with the Governments of the Republics of Nicaragua and Salvador to.supply them with new pictorial sets of stamps annually. In 1892 a similar contract was entered into with the Government of dor. To recompense Seebeck, he stipulated that after the withdrawal of any particular set he should be allowed to print off supplies for sale to stamp collectors; The effect of this arrangement was that stamp collectors viewed with disfavour the issues of the three Republics, and because of the difficulty of distinguishing between the genuine originals and the reprints, the issues during the period of the contract' are procurable at a percentage of the face value. Selangor: A native state on the' west coast of the Malay Peninsula. Stamps of the Straits Settlements were issued in 1878 for use in

Selangor overprinted with a crescent, star, and letter "S" in an oval. In 1881 the overprint was altered to the name of the state, and in 1891 a definite issue was placed on sale, and distinctive stamps remained in use until 1900, when Selangor adopted the general issue for . the Federated Malay States. In 1935, another distinctive issue was , provided inscribed "Malaya" at the top and with the name of the country in' native characters. Senegal: A French colony in West Africa. Stamps of the French Colonial issue were placed on sale In Senegal in 1887, overprinted

Vith new values, and in 1892 a distinctive issue in the Trench

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(By R. J. G. Collins)

Colonial key-type - .design appeared inscribed “Senegal et Depend-; ances.” Since 1914 the inscription has been merely “Senegal.” Senegambia and Niger: In 1899, French Soudan was divided up, the greater part of the colony being known as “Senegambia and Niger.” In July, 1903 stamps in the French Colonial key-type- design were issued with the inscription “Senegambie et Niger,” but in 1904 a further reorganisation was. effected and the territory was renamed “Upper Senegal and Niger,” and stamps of Dahomey, overprinted with the new title,. superseded the issue for Senegambia and Niger in 1906. : v Serbia: A former kingdom of the Balkans which now forms part of Jugoslavia. Stamps were first issued for Serbia in 1886, and this set, which portrayed the Arms of the country, was in -use for less

than three months, being replaced by a new issue With the head of the ruler. With two exceptions all subsequent issues contained portraits. In 1904 a commemorative set appeared which' is of particular, interest because when the stamps are turned upside down the portrait of the preceding king, who had been murdered, was found to: have been introduced .into the design. Though stamps for , Jugoslavia were first issued in 1918, a ■ distinctive set for ■ Serbia - was current until 1920. During rthe Great War, Austrian troops occupied Serbia, and in March, 1916, stamps of Bosnia were- issued overprinted “Serbien.”, In 1919, Serbian forces occupied the districts ■ of Baranya and : Temesvar in Hungary and. Serbia retaliated by overprinting Hungarian stamps, i Se tenant: This term which is taken from the French means :“Joined together”, and is, used in philately to describe two unseparated stamps, one being different from the other. For example, among the stamps of Switzerland there have been cases when two different values have been printed , together on the one sheet, and pairs ■ containing the two values, are ire- ‘ ferred to as “se tenant.” (To be continued.)