REMARKABLE STAMP ISSUES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1706, 22 December 1919, Page 10

REMARKABLE STAMP ISSUES.

Ihiring the war stamps issued by our nuvied anil armies in occupation rose Lo fabulous prices on the stamp market, ami arc still rising, says n wutcr in the Daily Mail. ■ A'couple of British ocjjupa'l ion .stamps for Bagdad, sold at the post oiiico there for 3 annas (3d) in September, 1917, are worth to-day £l5O. Two stamps issued by our troops at Togo at 8s face value could not. bo bought at £3OO to-day—-there would be a good demand at that price, hut there is no supply. Only two of each aro known, ami the two lortu-

::! nate possessors (the King owns a speci•l men of each) are not likely to sell. Since the armistice li new period of remarkable stamp issues has begun—- ■ stamps that reflect the new political and ' general conditions leading up to and I establishing peace conditions. The New Europe stamps already mi clndfi & number of rarities. Here is an Austrian stamp of 10 kronen (less than 2s at the present rate of exchange) which was overprinted by the Italians ■ at Trieste in November last. Its price to-day is £100; while the similar 10 kronen stamp overprinted at Trent is worth more than double that amount. Of the latter only eloven authentic copies are known, and most, if not all, ! of these arc now in the collections of high personages or of Italian museums.