NEW ZEALAND STAMPS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21981, 16 June 1933, Page 10

NEW ZEALAND STAMPS

SALE IN LONDON

(From Oub Own Cobrespo.Vden'i. LONDON, May 12,

A number of rare New Zealand postage stamps were sold by auction at Messrs H. R. Harmers last week. They were included in a general collection of about 500 lots.

Among a set of proofs a sheet of New Zealand 1898 pictorial types of various denominations and in various colours war sold for £ll.

The list included a New Zealand July, 1855, Is, bisected diagonally, and used for, a fid stamp. This appeared on an envelope and was sold for £37. A November, 1855, Is green, bisected diagonally, and used on an envelope as a fid stamp, was sold for £25. This was a little damaged An 1862 imperforated Is yellow-green sold for £5, and a November, 1855, blue paper 2d with large margins, and lightly postmarked, sold for £1 12s. \ . A Cape of Good Hope woodblock 4d three-cornered stamp sold for £ls.

There is a farm at -Comfort, Texas, where the chief crops are lamp shades, table ornaments and wall fittings. It is used to breed whose hard, brilliant, and translucent shells are made into household ornaments, chiefly • lamp shades, baskets, smokers’ sets, and fruit bowls. The armadillo is intelligent and difficult to capture. It has powerful claws, and can burrow as quickly as the hunters can dig. At the farm 50 hunters spend many nights, accompanied by specially-trained dogs, hunting the animals, which are seldom seen above the ground during daylight.