MORE STAMPS
Fluctuating exchange and financial depression have affected stamp collecting, though in the opposite direction to which one would imagine, says the "Weekly Scotsman." It has .resulted in/more, new issues, the reason being 'that while pdople use stamps only for franking'letters, through-the post and receipting bills, other countries use thorn to balance their Budgets. The method usually adopted is to placo a few on sale at the post office, to make stamps of what are merely labels, and then to sell the remainder to the highest bidder, who is at liberty to charge any price ho can got. The Piura centenary stamps afford an, instance. Issue*d by the Peruvian Post Office, they were sold for a day for immediate use. The remainder of the 250,000 copies printed will be sold at auction, and the Budget will reap the benefit. The total emission of stamps by the post offices of the world since the "penny black" of 1840 has been brought up to 55,214 by tho' issue of this year, according to Messrs. Whitefield King's stamp census, of 173-8 new stamps, an increase of 121 over last year's total. Europe has contributed 563, Asia 373, America 394, Africa 241, Oceania 128, and the West Indies 39.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 106, 8 May 1933, Page 3
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206MORE STAMPS Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 106, 8 May 1933, Page 3
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