Stamp Collecting.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXIII, Issue XVII, 22 October 1904, Page 53

Stamp Collecting.

■St. Lucia, Id. purple, King’s Head type, has appeared on the multiple wa tomia rk paper. • • • The sc. on 3c. green official stamp of Nicaragua has been found with double surcharge. • • • The sd. Honduras stamp of 1898 that was by mistake printed in the colour of the 6c., was regularly issued for postal use. • • • All the special Uganda stamps have been withdrawn from sale, the King's Head East Africa and Uganda Protectorates being now alone in use. • • • The French Postal Department is still busy issuing at Paris sets of stamps for the various colonies, which, to say the least, is very considerate. • • o The current 1 r twice. King’s head type, has received the ordinary surcharge for Put ilia, and the bi-coloured I rupee, Queen’s Head, was overprinted • • • The reason why the 2, 3 and 5 rupee stamps for Gwailor have remained in use so long after being exhausted in other Indian States is stated to be due io a second printing of 9696 sets in 190 L • • • The ’•Philatelic Journal of India” quotes a rumour to the effect that 1 he •’Baby Queen” stamps remaining in stock in the Dutch Indios are to b? surcharged so as to do duty lor 1A cents newspaper stamps. A distinct double imprint has been found on a Mauritius 16 reals on 17 cents. Of course one is very faint, which explains why the second was dopa*. o e © The '‘Deutsche Briofmarkeii Zcitung” chronicles the following stamps for Jhind: —King’s head Indian stamps being overprinted—3 pies, grey: A anna, green; 1 anna, carmine; 2 anna, v'olet ; 3 anna, orange-brown; 4 anna olivegrey, and 8 anna lilac. • • • The new A. 1 and 2A anna stamps were issued at Zanzibar a couple of months ago on paper with multiple’ quatrefoils wafer-mark. The paper is thin and white as in the curre.it British stamps and the style of printing is also the same.

The ‘‘Deutsche Brieftnarkeu Zcitung*’ states that the Mozambique Company has issued the following postcards: 25 reis, carmine-red on chamois; 50 reis lilac-brown on blue-grey; and 65 iris steelblue on blue grey. • • • Costa Rica proposes to sell the ••remainders’* of 1892. 'lenders were invited, and no doubt speculators will kindly assist the revenue of that country by buying'the Government sticking plaster, and pass them on to young collectors. « • • A set of stamps has been issued for < undimana on the new gold basis. The values are 3r. rose, sc. olive green, 10c. pale brown. 15c. pink, 20c. blue, 30c. blue on green, and 40e. blue. These are all perforated 12. The 20e. blue also exists uuperforated. • • • Another new set of stamps lias been issued for Paraguay, dated 1904 in two designs. The se. blue, 10c. yellowbistre, 20c. violet, 30c. pale blur, and 60r. brown, are in rectangular designs, and the 1 peso, carmine and black. 2 peso, blur and black, and 5 peso, blue and black are of oblong design with building in centre. • • • A set of stamps was issued commemorative of Captain Abdon Calderon. ‘ who won the battle of Pichincbo, on the 24th May, 1824, and thereby insured the independence of Ecuador. The stamps bear the portrait of Captain Ualderon in the centre, in black, with frame of the colour given in the list, and that their use was not to extend beyond the end of this September. The values were Ir. red, 2c. blue, sc. yellow, ]oe. red. 20c. blue, and 50e. yellow. • • • The- design of the new set of Venezuelan stamps shows a military man in uniform under an arch in the centre. Above in a straight line, “Correos de;” ••Venezuela” in a curved line forming the fop of the arch ami, below in a straight line, •’Centiinos” with a large colourless numeral of value at either end of the word and within the corner blocks forming the supports of the arch. The values are —sc. blue-green, 10c. carmine, 25c. blue, 50c. mareon, and lb. maroon. • • • South American republics are w underfill in Ihcir postal methods as far as makeshift stamps are concerned. A specimen of the Santander, the 50c. fiscal stamp, has appeared, which was overprinted last year, for postal use, divided in half diagonally and apparently po&tally used. It is not surcharged, but professes to be half of a fiscal stamp used for postage; it is cancelled with an obliterating mark of wavy rays, and an oval stamp inscribed *•('orreos Del Departamento- Buearanianga.”