WANTED STAMP INFORMATION
Would some authority on stamps assist a boy reader by answering the following questions? May I please ask for some information about niv stamps? I do not think it is interesting unless I know whom the portraits represent and what tho inscriptions mean. ] have some I should like to know about. (1) Italy, an air stamp, 1932. A head ag'ainst a sort of bat's wirig. Value, 100 lire. Would you please translate the inscription, Latin I think, and tell me who it is? (2) Italy. I have a seit of nine stamps, called a Virgil set, 1930. Could you please tell me what the pictures represent and what the quotations mean? (3) U.S.A. A red stamp, 2 cents, 17771927. Bennington at one side, figure of a Green Mountain Boy. Who was he? (4) U.S.A.. Purple, 3 cents, 1635-1935. Connecticut Tercentenary. Picture of tree— Tho Charter Oak. What is it, please? I should be very grateful if you would tell me. —J.A.W., c.o. Editor, Youth's Leisure Hour, New Zealand Herald.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22498, 15 August 1936, Page 9 (Supplement)
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172WANTED STAMP INFORMATION New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22498, 15 August 1936, Page 9 (Supplement)
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