FOR STAMP COLLECTORS

Evening Star, Issue 20672, 20 December 1930, Page 13

FOR STAMP COLLECTORS

——. — +. ——- [By Watermark.] m Anv news, notes, and items of philatelic interest will always be appreciated. Address care Editor. MY LETTER BOX. “ J.E.S.” (Lawrence)'. —Thanks lor letter. Replv posted. “ Interested ” (Roslyn) .—Appreciate your remarks and interest. There was a splendid atetndanco of thirty members and visitors at the meeting of the Dunedin Philatelic Club held at the Y.M.C.A. last week, Mr J. M'Ara presiding. Five new members joined. The syllabus for 1931 (commencing with the February meeting), arranged by a full executive, should prove highly instructive and interesting, The subject for the evening was li au exhibition by members of stamps on original covers,” and many valuable and unique items were banded- round. A new feature, “ Stain)} sales,” was introduced, a largo number of members bringing a big variety of stamps nicely mounted, and priced very low. A “new membership drive” is in operation among all club members, and the committee is hopeful of getting in touch with everybody interested in collecting stamps, and invites them to the club meetings. Anyone interested in stamp collecting and desirous of information about tho Dunedin Stamp Club should write to tho secretary, Mr A. Clark, 50 Moreau street, St. Kilda, who will gladly furnish same. Portugal.—Xew pictorial stamps for both ordinary and aerial postage are imminent from this country. Tonga.—A new printing of tho current 2d stamp, with portrait of Queen Saboto, is reported, and ith colours are now deep purple and grey. Record Prices for Canadian' Stamps. —Tho sum of £3SG was obtained at a recent stamp auction sale in London for eight blocks of the Canadian 1859 17c. blue, consisting of fifty-six stamps, catalogued £9l. These were previously unknown in blocks.

Argentine Republic. Tiro special stamps, to commemorate the revolution of September last, have .been issued, values 5 and 12 centavos. Tho use of special stamps for telegraphic purposes is to bo abolished, and the existing series wore suppressed as from November 1. View from tho Lebanon.—Although wo do not hear very much about the Lebanon Republic, anyone who collects its stamps will soon begin to feel familiar with the country, for it has issued many beautiful stamp views. To these six now ones-—five postal and one air mail—have not long been added. Uruguay.—Tho latest set from here is one issued in commemoration of the centenary of Uruguayan independence. Three printers, two British and one American, have collaborated in producing this series, which includes some very line designs, tho most interesting being tho 5M (Bridge over the Rio Negro) and tho 20c and 50c, which bear

contrasted views of Montevideo Harhour to-day and 100 years ago. Celebrities in every walk of life confess to a weakness for stamp collecting* The famous Surrey (England) cricketer, Mr J. B. Hobbs, declared recently: “Stamp collecting, in which T am still interested, claimed my attention at a very early a«;e. I liked stamp collecting) it taught me a good deal about geography, and in studying the history of the stamps 1 collected I found that I accumulated »quite a lot of information not contained in school books. It; interested me so much, in fact, that even to-day I am a keen collector of them.” United States. —Still another special postage stamp from this country! This time it is a 2 cent value to commemorate tho ‘2otith anniversary of the birth of General Baron Von Steuben and in recognition of the exceptional services rendered by him during the revolutionary war. A sunplv of last year’s charity stamps is available at face value (2d) to all stamp collectors on replication to the Secretary of tho Postal Demaptmcnt, Wellington Compliments of the season to all devotees of tho hobby and readers of these notes!