ROSS SEA STAMPS
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tN_Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 8 p.m.) NEW YORK, March 10.
The stamps being sold at New Zealand’s Scott Base in the Antarctic today were described by a North American Newspaper Alliance correspondent as being issued by “a non-existent government of an unrecognised colony without a single citizen.” The correspondent, Ray Falk, said in a dispatch from McMurdo Base, the United States base two miles from Scott Base, that the stamps had been issued by the Ross Dependency, a territory claimed by New Zealand. The stamps, a 3d, 4d and Is 6d. were rapidly becoming collector’s items, he said.
Enterprising United States Navy men had glued their Ross stamps to International Geophysical Year envelopes and had the stamps cancelled at the United States South Pole station.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28532, 11 March 1958, Page 7
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132ROSS SEA STAMPS Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28532, 11 March 1958, Page 7
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