CURIO STAMPS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15835, 4 June 1919, Page 6

CURIO STAMPS.

Others besides philatelists will be interested to know that Sinn Fein and Bolshevik stamps were to he obtained in Fleet Street, London, at the end of March, though they were only being sold for the curio enthusiast,’ not as legitimate revenue articles. A Daily Chronicle representative was shown specimens from an Ambassador’s collection, which contained two of the Bolshevik Republic of Russia issues. They were dated 1918, and were for 35 and VO kopeken. Each contained the same printed picture—a hand '(shown to the wrist) grasping a, sword .and smashing the shackles of a chain. Behind was the rising sun,_ symbolical of tho awakening There were three issues of the Sinn Fein stamp at the declaration of the first “republic,” and there were three designs—jOne with a blue cross and the word Enn, one green and yellow, with the Irish harp, and the third a shamrock leaf, the segments of which contained portraits of the three rebels who were executed and their names. The late Austrian Emperor issued a set of stamps, the revenue from which was devoted to a widows’ and ornhans’ fund i When the English abandoned Gallipoli the Turks issued a special stamp, showshowing the Peninsula and the Turkish crescent floating over the waters.