Stamp Collecting.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 22, 25 November 1908, Page 42

Stamp Collecting.

The fid. rose stamp of New Zealand is reported perforated 14 X 15. The 24 cent stamp of the United States issued in 1869, with inverted centre, sold by auction in London for £]]. • • • We swear roundly at the surcharging syandal;” states "E.W.S.N.” “ but all the same we scramble for the stamps.” • • • It is now reported that our 29,000,000 of the Quebec Tercentenary Commemoration stamps were sold, the proceeds amounting to .6147,250. • • • The following is the description given of a new 2 eent stamp issued in Newfoundland.: —“ 2 cent, lake red, map of 'Newfoundland: the gulf of St. Lawrence Ito the left), and Atlantic Ocean (to the light) are, however, both named. • • • Papua is evidently doing well out of its stamp trade. The total sale of British New Guinea (unsure harged) postage stamps for all purposes, from 1901 to> 1907, was about £4OOO. Of this, probably about £lOOO represented the first purchases by dealers in 1901-02, leaving an average of £6OO per annum for the remaining years. The surcharged stamps came into use about January, 1907, and represented the following amounts: Face value, Jd. to 1/ stamps. £2211 17/6; face value, 2/6 stamps, £1676 5/; total, £3BBB 2/6.

, Amongst recent additions to she txiuster collection of postage stamps iii the Science and Art Museum, Dublin, ia. al presentation by the Government of Spain of a collection numbering nearly live hundred pieces of the recent issues of the stamps of Spain and of the Spanish colonies. • • ‘ • At the German Congress of Philatelists, this year, there were the usual social festivities and excursions, while a larges amount of business was transacted. The demand for good, middle-class stamps, notably Europeans, was excellent, butl the supply of fare stamps appeared very; limited. • • • The Governor’s Palace is -depicted on tire new set of postage due stamps in. Madagascar. It is somewhat ."significant that the new set of postage stamps for this island has on it a- representation of a. colonist being carried in a chair supported! on two "wooden .poles, carried by four natives. • • • With regard to the Belgian post oilice in China, "E.W.S.N.” states: —‘‘The four surcharged stamps previously chronicled! for use in China did not get beyond the essay stage, another Power having successfully objected to Belgium opening post offices in that country. Thus does diplomacy affect philately. • • • The following is a. description of two new stamps issued in Brazil: —lOO re is, pale carmine. Female figure seated, surrounded by emblems of Commerce and Manufacture, holding a palm in the right hand. In the background view of the Bay of Rio de Janeiro with inscription, “ Exposiceo Nacional 1908.” Also 100 reis, vermilion. Arms of Portugal and of Brazil, with portraits above of Don Carlos I. and of M. Alfona Penna, and beneath the two dates 1808 and 1908. The whole frames a view of the Bay of Rio de Janeiro, with, in the foreground, a soldier and a young woman, ’symbolising Portugal and Brazil. These stamps are for’ interior use only.