TRIANGLE STAMPS.
TOO CLUMSY TO BE USED. A new postage stamp—of normal shape —has been issued in South Africa to replace the triangular stamp which recently appeared. The triangular stamps were so clumsy and difficult to handle—they were imperforate and had to be cut up with scissors—that the complaints of the post office officials effected a withdrawal. “ The triangular 4d stamp was an attempt to popularise the old issue which was first made in South Africa,” said Messrs Whitfield King and Co., the Ipswich stamp delcars. recently. “ But the enormous mails of the present day do not allow leisure to cut oil each stamp separately for the public!” The old triangular stamps are the philatelic goal of schoolboys, and many dealers have adopted it as their sign.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20448, 30 June 1928, Page 16
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127TRIANGLE STAMPS. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20448, 30 June 1928, Page 16
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