THE KING'S STAMP PARTY.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2694, 12 July 1923, Page 8

THE KING'S STAMP PARTY.

100 COLLECTORS TO TEA AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE. Tlio King-, who is an enthusiastic stamp collector, entertained 100 stamp collectors at Buckingham Palace. He shewed them his 200 wonderful collections and afterwards they had tea with His Majesty. All were exhibitors and officials of the stamp exhibition at | the Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent .Square, S.W. The King chatted for some time with Mr Arthur Hind, the millionaire owner of the famous £7OOO British Guiana stamp, for which special lighting is provided at the stamp exhibition. '"Your wonderful stamp fills me with envy," he told Mr Hind. "But come along with me," he added, smiling, "and I will show you same that even you haven't got." Among those which the King show- j ed with special pride were his ex-j tremely rare Post Office Mauritius stamps. ' I The King was much interested to learn that one of the party, Mr Walter Scott, o.C Cardiff, was the original owner of one of his choicest possessions—a large block of what arc known as "Cardiff Penny Reds." He asked .Mr Scott for the history of the "reds," and Mr .Scott told him that in 1870 he sent his office boy to buy some penny stamps. The boy wiw away j some time, and when lie came back said T am sorry f have been so long', 1 but I have had to. cut out the stamps] with a pair of scissors." Mr Scott examined the stamps and found they had not been perforated, j He immediately bought the rest of the set. which had been sent to Cardiff by officials who were unaware of the fact that they had not been perforated. On the following day the Kins' visited the exhibition, and made a critical examination of the thousands of exhibits. Particular interest was shown l>> the king' ill the collection of a schoolboy named Pat Collins, which included about a. dozen Trinidads, each worth [in. "This is a. surprisingly good colleotion for a boy, and he must bo a. very lucky lad." he said.