£1100 FOR 2/6.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXII, Issue 2668, 18 December 1928, Page 3

£llOO FOR 2/6.

In a London sale room recently, 30 penny stamps, were sold for £llOO. They were the “Penny Blacks” of 1840, the first stamps, and were printed from the same plate 1. THE SPORTING MUSSOLINI. When one of “II Duce’s” interviewers called upon him the other day, he was loath to discuss politics, but when the talk turned upon sport, he spoke with great animation. “I am a sportsman myself,” he exclaimed, and by vivid movements and gestures, he showed what sorts of sport he was interested in. “I fence,” he said, and made a forward lunge with an imaginary foil. Then he flung his. arms out breaststroke-fashion, and said that he swum; then put himself into a pugilistic attitude which might have impressed even Gene Tunney. (One wonder what is the penalty for giving him a red nose, to say nothing of a black eye), and then he finished up with the intimation that he was a would-be “road hog.” “I conduct the auto,” suiting the word with an appropriate action. Any sporting movement, in Italy, it is said has his support, and both Rugby and Soccer are taking there.