VALUABLE STAMP COLLECTION
x SALE FOR WAR EFFORT {; ;l j A unique collection of British Guiani V I stamps, conservatively valued , ft,, £SOOO, has been flown bj; clipper to j New York for dispersal. * . It is a gold medal collection belong* j ing to the well-known English stamp. 1 collector, Mr W. J. Webster. He| nf; j selling it to get dollars for the British Treasury. Each of the stamps has 'ti ship on it under full sail, a reminder*■ of the part British Guiana is to-day in the Battle of the Atlantic.. And the motto of the colony is also appropriate to the transaction:—“We give and we seek in return.” Just before the Webster collection,, was flown across the Atlantic a CMrr lection of West Indies and Nona American stamps, begun at the age of 70 by Mr Martin-Hurst, went by boat to the New York auction rooms, where it is expected to fetch at least £3OOll
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23523, 29 December 1941, Page 6
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