STAMP COLLECTING

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XLIX, Issue 9729, 11 August 1950, Page 2

STAMP COLLECTING

WAIHI AND DISTRICT SOCIETY MEETING IN PAEROA INTERESTING, TALK GIVEN (Contributed) Stamp collecting- can be whatever you like to make it, and Mr K. McNaught, of Hamilton, revealed a new aspect of the hobby when he displayed his "errors” collection at the August meeting of the Waihi and District meeting of the Waihi and District Philatelic Society, which took place in Paeroa. A large gathering of enthusiasts from Te Aioha, Hamilton, Katikati, Paeroa and Waihi was welcomed by Mr A. Ellis, as president. Mr Ellis then handed the meeting over to Mr McNaught. In presenting his display, Mr McNaught mentioned that the annotation for his collection, which proved to be neat and concise as well as self-explanatory, was the work of his wife, and then gave an insight into the “types of errors” which he had endeavoured, with success, to v eld into a logical whole. The first section, "Wrong Designs,” was illustrated by a Philippine stamp ostensibly containing a view of a waterfall in the Philippines but actually depicting a waterfall of another country. Columbus in an issue of St. Kitts Nevis looking through a telescope 100 years before the telescope had been developed; a Newfoundland stamp showing a seal with claws instead of flippers; the well-known Fiji lid Die I, with no man in boat, which was later corrected, and others. "Errors of Inscription” covered the well-known "Lake Wakitipu” error of the .early pictorialfe which was later given the correct Wakatipu spelling; a Greek stamp portraying Sir Edward Codrington, which first appeared with the inscription "Sir Codrington”; and as an example of the "Colour” section, the New ziealand--2d purple George V and the 2d yellow to which it was later changed to show up pen cancellations more prominently. "Plate Errors” was a tig field, Mr McNaught mentioning chat where separate electros were used as in many cases with the older issues, errors were frequent. For example, some tete-beche pairs of Egypt and France and square stamps of Roumania, France, etc., with a stamp sideways on to the normal. New Zealand was represented among others by the 4d Dunedin Exhibition in which one of the stamps had the lower part of the E of postage erased by a knife when removing the strips of paper covering the value tablet which had been used to print the id value and replacing by those to print the 4d value. The Id Admiral with double chenons and the 1936 2id Pictorial with reversed number plate were also prominent. Then came "Type Errors,” such as the circumflex error in Canada’s blue airmail, errors occurring in the individually engraved stamps of Japan, etc., followed by "Overprint and Surcharge” errors which in nun. were followed by "Paper Errors” such as folded paper, inverted watermarks, reversed watermarks, errors in watermark bits on the dandy roll and “perforation errrrs” such as double perforations, freak imperforations, imperforations horizontally or vertically, and many others. "Postmark Errors” contained examples with incorrect names, flaws in precancels, inverted letters and no town name, to mention a few; and to conclude a section of f. rgers’ work with clipped perforations, forged overprint, whole stamps forged and postmark forgeries. A vote of thanks to the speaker, who in reply said that he had avenues for garnering material of this nature not always available to the average collector, and a tasty supper brought the evening Jo a close.