WORLD SEARCH‘FOR RARE STAMPS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 264, 3 August 1929, Page 29

WORLD SEARCH‘FOR RARE STAMPS

INTERNATIONAL DEALERS IN LONDON The Philatelic Stock Exchange of the world opened at the Holborn Restaurant in London recently, and in three days hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of rare stamps changed hands among the really big dealers. This Stamp Bourse, as it is called—the second to be held in London —is the biggest the world lias yet seen, with I 'over four hundred dealers in attendance, and heavy dealings completed on the first day. There were dealers from Los Angeles, Paris, Hamburg, Berlin, Italy, New York, and Brussels, in addition to English representatives. No official record of business done is kept. The dealers get together, like schoolboys in the early stages of enthusiasm, and swap stamps and collections, according to the demands of their various markets. One of the biggest deals put through was effected by Mr. Frank Godden, the President of the Bourse, who showed a British Guiana collection he had purchased from a Continental dealer for several thousands of pounds. In it was a unique block of eight imperforated used stamps, which cost him £450. Another card contained three type-set, hand-stamped circular stamps of 1850, and another a strip of four one cent magentas worth £6OO,