PRINTED BY NEWSPAPERS

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 March 1935, Page 14

PRINTED BY NEWSPAPERS

STAMP IS WORTH k £7,000. Some of the most valuable stamps were printed by newspapers. Six stamps printed by the British Guiana "Official Gazette" arc for sale now in London. Some are printed on the ordinary paper used for the Gazette, ethers on sugar-bag paper. Between 1850 and 1862 throe such issues were made by the Gazette, the rare one cent of 1856 now being priced as high as £7,0.00. Other examples are the Fiji stamps of 1870, which were printed at the offices of the "Fiji Times," and some Indian stamps of 1595, overprinted for use in British East Africa by a Zanzibar newspaper. In the latter case innumerable mis-spellings were made and . varieties sell at prices up to £4O.

In 1901 the town of Dietersburg, in the Boer Republic of Transvaal, issued stamps printed by a local paper, “De Zoutpansberg Wachter." Again, there are an infinite number of varieties. But Dietersburg fell into the hands of the British one month later, and used copies of these stamps are not only beyond price but almost unknown.

Newspapers, however, are not the only concerns whose aid is enlisted when no official printing press exists. In 1911, in the Indian native state of Kishangarb, an issue wa< produced by a soap works.