EMPIRE STAMPS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 424, 2 December 1933, Page 5

EMPIRE STAMPS

VALUABLE COLLECTION SOLD

£34,000 REALISED AT J , SALE ijr f] World Scoured for Collection GATTJHRIiNG TOOK SEVENTY YEARS Press Association.— Received Today, 11.45 a.m. ' t London, Dsc. 1. Thirty_four thousand pounds vr&4 paid for "a collection of British Era,, piro stamps belonging to H. P. Man* u<, the Amsterdam tobacco an octogenarian, who died in 11)31, He collected for 70 years. '■'.,. j. Mauritius varieties realised' £4ooo* and an early Australian collection) realised high prices. Manus originally scoured ttfc world resulting in a collection so bulky Hiati ho confined it to the Empire during; the last 30 years. .j