Stamp Collecting.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue II, 12 July 1902, Page 116

Stamp Collecting.

Mails are now being carried between Manchester and Liverpool by motor car. • • • The 5/ lilac stamp has at length been issued in Trinidad. •F + + The French 30e. stamp, current type, has appeared in pale violet. • • • The 25e. indigo British North Borneo stamp has been issued surcharged “British Protectorate.’’ inverted. • • • Straits Settlement has issued a new 8 cent stamp, perf. 14, water marked C.A. and crown, colour purple and brown, and bearing the King’s head. • e • The German 2-mark stamps, with the Gothic lettering,.is not to be reissued after the present stock is exhausted. • e • The Transvaal new issue of stamps range from one half-penny up to 10/, till bearing the picture of the King. • • • It is stated that the first lot of the new issue of Djbouti stamps were not perforated. Later lots will, however, be perforated. • • • The new issue of King Edward stamps for Grenada will be the first from that country over 1/. The highervalues are 2/, 5/, and 10/. • • o As the Australian Federal Government has authority to take over control of British New Guinea, it is probable the stamps in 1001 will be superseded. The 4d green and brown, 9d purple and blue, 5/ rose, and 10/ ultra marine King Edward British stamps have now been issued. They are similar in design to the previous issue. • • • Abyssinian stamps, surcharged “E'thiope,” were withdrawn from circulation on April Ist, a new set, overprinted “Pbsta,” in Amharic characters, being substituted. • • • She has come at last —the female philatelist kleptomaniac. Recently in New York a young woman annexed about 10 dollars worth of stamps, while professedly making a small purchase- She got clear away with the labels, and the dealer is now suspicious of any lady stamp collector that visits his establishment. • • • The “Montreal Philatelist’’ has the following in a recent issue: “As a rule every British colonial stamp of 5/ value or over is a good purchase.” Judging by the prices asked for New Zealand 5/. London print, the advice is sound. Of course, most 5/ stamps are lost on legal documents, comparatively few going through the post. • • • It is proposed to have a postal museum for Paris. It would be a good idea to start a collection for the Auckland Museum. Probably the Postal Department would, if asked, forward all new issues, and in time the collection would become of monetary value, besides being useful for collectors to refer to. Australian and South Sea Island issues might be obtained so as to make the collection purely a Southern one. • • • Now that the war is happily’ over in South Africa, philatelists in New Zealand are hoping that it might be made memorable by the disappearance from New Zealand current issues of that beautifully artistic production known as the lid khaki war stamp. A better one might easily be produced, and could be made commemorative. of peace. Now that the Boors arc fellow members of the Empire there is no need to keep the IJd war stamp in issue, and from an artistic, point of view “it never would be missed.”