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The postage stamp is a modern Mercury, whose message is by no means confined to the missives it Franks. As a symbol of authority it bears on its face pictorial record of passing events. The history of the rime is writ large on the stamps of the nations.
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of free postage by the Bolshevist MODERNS OF THE STONE] Government of Russia rendered tin: necessary the lasue of some weird) postage stampe in advanced futurist designs symbolical of Labour-in'alli Its phases, prepared by the-Sexte Printing Works at Petrograd.
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A lighthouse on the Kent cossa 19 for male as a residence- and I have been "wondering, whether anyone would like to buy it for me as a pres sent, writes Mr. Hilgar Wood in one of the Home papers. I should be so London good if I lived there.
Mr. Wells seems to have found a bumerpus astiat to lustrate his History of the World" judging from the following letter of Mr. St. John Lucas to the
Observer:"
For think of a home on the Fore-
The Transcaucasian Republic of Georgia was added to the roll of stamp-issuing countries on May 26 when a set of four stamps made its debat with a hieroglyphic reproduc tion of the national arms depicting St. George crossing the Black Moun Like many people whose knowledge land, overlooking the roadstead where tsins. Some curious stamps adorned of the facts of our earlier existenca the ships of the world go by to Lon- with a vignette of a large tree were was always rudimentary, I balled the don town, and where, on a dark win- sued about the same period by the arrival of Mr. Well's Outline of ter's night, you have only to step Provisional Government of the Black History" with Intense pleasure. outside the front door to be in sill the Sea port of Batum, under British read the first number with great whirling splendour of the gale. The military control. Three separate interest, and was properly annoyed best gale I have ever seen up to the series of provisional postage stamps to see in some evening paper a rather present, I had to go all the way to issued at Alvaly, Smyrna, and supercilious review, which wound up mid-Atlantic. to meet, and though it Rodosto resulted from the Greek by saying that the cover design of a was very fine, one cannot always be occupation of Asia Minor by the probably arboreal gentleman sitting of gale humming on a liner.
on a rock and contemplating the have it alone, far from other men and Bet to dawn of enlightenment with obvious- y mixed feelings was a portrait of Mr. Wells.
mandate of the Paris Conference.
The deliverance of Rigs from the Bolshevists was duly commemorated on June 6 in the issue by the Leftish Government of a set of three celebra- tion: stamps pertraying the reunion":
of Lettonia and Riga,
kome, just the other side of your door matt1 call that living.
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I Inspected the portrait carefully, Bas indeed there are so many and decided that it had absolutely no places in which one would like | THE DAIRY FARM, IOE & COLD STORAGE 00., LII Bolshevist campaign in both North
resemblance to that writer. Judge, live. There are windows, and so, I' ment port their drst stamps were of and South Russia. is denoted by the however, my amazement when, after suppose, rooms, on top of the Ad- only primitive rature, locally stamps of General Denikein's Gayern-confronted with a caricature of a square. Now suppose of sourse buying the second number, I was miralty Arch, overlooking Traftigar- designed and printed on paper of
ment, inscribed "Russian. Union," se and textures by reason and issued at Sebastopol in June, the Jaegerless Mr. Bernard Shaw, who this is only a beautiful dream-but of the acute shortage of regular curious typeset adhesive of the North was grasping a large fossil parsnip suppose the Admiralty people seeing printing paper. The stamps of
West Russian Army which appeared Mr. Shaw was obviously going to lay there!
and looking indescribably ferocious, this article, ofered me a flat up Latvia, with the device of three ears
at Reval later in the year, and. of corn ip a sunburst, were origio Finnish stamps overprinted "Aura ally impressed st Riga on the backs for use in the district. of Oinonetz of German staff maps, and subse after the Soviet forces had beer quently at Libau co writing and Lithuania's firat
compelled to retire. cigarette paper. issue was printed at Vilna and Grod- naw from ordinary printer's type on
coarse white paper, and when at
AERIAL ISSUES.
PEACE STAMPS, Japan was first. in the field with Peace" commemorative stamps,
never be.
But, of course, the ideal home can Geography, among other
| things, is against it. It stands just
about him in fine style with the Of course, my den would need parsnip, but behind him was a less proper arranging. hope there will energetic person, whom I recognised be two windows, for I shall want a as one of our younger novelists in writing table set at one of them, and the act of conscientiously objecting. an armchair at the other. Already-1- and abott to retreat into a cave orean-see-thysell-sitting-writing-I funkhole..
should be so industrious, and write The postal issues of this year of
Today I bought No. III. On the such capital things if I could be there peace have been more numerous and length a more ela arate design reissued on July 1, in designs by S. Į cover are five persons who have end now and again I would raise of an infinitely greater variety than presenting St. Michael on torseback Okada and Yuki, representing doves, escaped in a boat from a burning any that have appeared since the first was obtained from Berlin the stamps and beautifully engraved by the fake village. They may be identified my eyes from the manuscript for
at as follows: adhesive stamp came into existence had to be printed temporarily on Government Printing Bureau
which the muss meeting of editors nearly 80 years ago. More than 2,500 thick grey paper that had previously Tokio. Uruguay followed suit on! (1) My Aunt. The artist has and publishers in the Square would distinct specimens have been created bead emslayed for printing German July 17 with a handsome vignetite given her mas caline arms. (Michele waiting, and I should see the during the past 12 months as an outbred tiekas.
of Bartholdi's statue of Liberty on a Angelo did the same to his Sibyls in traffic playing warp and wool up and come of the war's aftermath, and in
series of six special stamps inscribed the Sistine Chapel.) She is exhorting down the Scand. Was there ever "Paz-1914-1919. them may be read' a vivid chronicle of
The faerial crossing of the Switzerland added her quota of three has been left in the lake village.
On August. 1 M. Paderewski to save her cat, which such a view for man who likes to sit
in comfort and watch his brothers) great events. They embrace many date hy was marked by the "Peace" stamps in attractive sym damps of types hitherto unknown tee of each postage stamps provid-bolics designs by native artists. ifelike portrait. She is consoling a
(2) Miss Ellen Terry. A most getting on with things? Philatelists, exemplified by special ad by the Newfoundland postal From Jamaica came on July 3 a lady whose face is hidden, but who Series representative of peace and authorities Amited numbers for single 12d. atamps recess printed in is possibly. victory, of war, armistice, and recon the Daily Mail prize. A 3 struction, and, last but not least, wamp of the Burrent type overprinted departure of the West Indian con-sits.
cents apple green, commemorative of the (3) Miss Edith Craig. Near her beside the sea. for galt water is the group of growing importance which "Fit Tram Atlantic Air Post tingent for the battlefields of France
only water for a man who warts to tell of the conquest of the air.
April, 1919" was affixed
(4) Mr. Chesterton. The light swim and sail a boat. But on the the 95 and Flanders. Newfoundland led the way on 1st letters forming the mail entrusted to
from the burning village is gilding other side of the garden is a pleasant January, 1919, with a notable set of Hawar and Grieve on their plucky ern countries have been brought kicked his left shoulder with a hob-rent. running between wooded banks, Changes in the stamps of Far East-his ambrosial curls. Someone has river, without too much tide or cur stamps commemorating the exploits allcapt, which were rescued from about by the phenomenal rise in the nailed boot (bronze age.) He wont't because there are times when a puat, of her soldier and sailor sons in the the be, while the Alcock-Brown post value of silver, including the over wear braces like the others. Always with a heap of cushions, is a good war, inscribed "Trail of the Caribou" bore stamps of the 15c. denomination printing for the first time of the paradoxical. and blazoned with the regimental of the 1807 series surcharged "Trans stamps sold by the United States (5) M. Paderewski. Back view of country-hills and woods and open thing. All around is every variety. crest, a Caribou head, after the Atlantic Air Post-One Dollar." postal agency in Shanghai The He has been rowing to my Aunt's moors, with a golf-course, that is design of a Colonial artist. Alternate Stamps of several values bearing a first postage stamps of the German stroke. values bore the battle honours of the distinguishing imprint were likewise Republic, in futurist designs sym-
reserved entirely for me whenever I military contingent and the remain prapased in connection with the balical of the rebirth of the Teutonic this number, I find Mr. Maurice say the word, because a fellow who
Turning to the frontispiece of der the motto Ubique, coupled Rarahamartinsyde venture, but as nation, were issued on the occasion Hewlett, in a grey, wit. Miss Pau is learning the game does not yearn with the name of the Royal Naval, this met with disaster at the outset of the National Assembly at Weimar fine Chase as a Peter Pan, and an-
for admiring crowds. were dever wred. The development in July. Austria has likewise been thar lady with bobbed hair, all "All at may seem fairly easy, but During January appeared also the of the air post also produced aerial provided with a complete new series engaged in attacking a very Land- there are harder conditions to come. Erst definitive stamp issues of them from Switzerland, Tunis, of postage stamps, designed by seerian lion. Two pages later I find For the house must be over a hun newborn free States of Europe Ja, Colombia, and Germany. Czecho-Slovakia, with its picturesque
Josef Franz Jenner, and comprising a portrait of myself, in a trench coat dred miles from London, so that 1 may The hand of Bolshevism has four different types. Czar Boris and muffler, inscribed Neolithic feel right away from streets, and alegory of dawn rising over the net fed leave its imprint on the #gures on the latest Bulgarian issue, statue: Menbir? This, like the crowds, and yer London must be only Hradschia of Prague (by Alfonse amps of those countries that have while Turkey has been compelled to very dignified XVIIIth Dynasty head ten minutes away by motor-car, in Mucha); Poland, with its crowned come ader its spell. The establish resort to provisional surcharging of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Edward case I want a book, or some more abite eagle and equestrian portraitment of Bela Kun's Red Republic at pending the preparation of her new Seymour on page 89, is by an tobacco, or suddenly yearn to drop of King Sobieski; Yego-Slavia, with Budapest was the cause of the over stamps. its caryatid of Victory and Croat pristing inscriptions of the Hungarian
ancient artist, and therefore in some inco Fleet-street at midnight to hear sailor proclaiming freedom from the stamps in use in other parts of the tive postage stamps marked the modern one who drew Miss Terry the wires.
An interesting set of commemora degree supports the theory of the the news of the world white-hot from masthead; while from Fiume came country, notably at Arad under opening of the first Polish Diet in in the lake-dwelling scene. But 0, on 28th January autonomous postage French occupation, in the Serbian Warsaw, Amongst the appropriate Sir, are we really
All of which makes it rather diff- stamps of pictorial design by the controlled Banat of Temesvar, in designs was a stamp portrait of Presi- doubtless excellent, but somewhat present me with an ideal home.
so like our cuk for you if you were proposing to artist Giovanni Rubinovico, issued Transylvania under Rumanian occupz dent Paderewski. Czecho-Slovakia, the primitive ancestors? Weren't they by the National Council, and eloquent tion, and at. Szegedin, where the in-youngest nation of Europe, celebrated a trifle more squalid and squamous? of the Italian sympathies of its dependeat Magyar Government of her first birthday on October 28 by And, anyhow, is it quite kind of Mr. populace. In Turkey the abortive Count Karoly was installed. Paper the issue of allegorical postage stamps Wells? pictorial stamps prepared in anticipa shortage brought to a premature sold in aid of the widows and orphans tion of Essad Pasha's ill-fated invasion conclusion the printing of the dis- of fallen soldiers,
Reserve.
£12,000 WORTH OF STAMPS,
of Egypt were finally placed in tinctive stamps of the Bolshevist ad- circulation towards the end of ministration with their unprepossess January with the addition of a three- ing portraits of the Socialist The first public stamp exhibition time overprint signifying "Souvenir leaders, Marx, Petofi, Engels, Doza, to be held la Great Britain since 1914 of the Armistice-30 Dulkaada 1334" and Martinovio, the unrestricted was opened at the City Art Gallery. (30th October, 1918.)
sale of which was intended to bring Leicester, on the 29th December, by
"G. B. S." A BOLSHEVMK.
HE SAYS 80.
FEZIER SPELING.
"Saiva pent" had a peni,
Poot a peni by, Spend a peni had no peni, And it maid him kry.
Dhis is not a forrun languige, and dozzent kum from Bolshevik Rusha. It is simple ing which has been speshali riten for veri young children, sum of whoom gay & demonstrashup lasst nite at the London Uneverseti Kollege, to proov dhe valu of sim-
plifyd speiing.
A figure of Victory flanked by grist to the mill of State. They the Mayor. Postage stamps to the trophies of flags of the Allied nations were superseded by former Hun- value of over £12,000 were exhibited formed the design of a much garian types of 1916, overprinted by local philatelists.
Mr. G. Bernard Shaw, speaking at criticized commemorative, stémp"Magyar Tanács Koztarsasag The fine early line-engraved issues London Garden Suburb Institute, issued by the United States Post (Hungarian Red Republic) until the of Great Britain and her Colonies said that the only way to get cheaper. Ofice on 13th, February 1919. overthrow of Bela Kun and the re were chiefly in evidence. A fine coal was by nationalisation. The About this time postage stamps establishment of the Hungarian State collection of Great Britain, exhibited action of the trade unions in press- Dhère waz a big audiens of per- came into use in the newly con by the Allied Commission. In Bavaria by Mr. F. B. Cooper, of Leicester, ing for higher wages would be either stituted Baltic States of Latvia and Wurtemburg the establishment was strong in blocks and strips of to destroy, industries, or to compel the sons intrested in the work of the Lettland), Lithuania, and Esthonia, of Soviet republice was signalized by the Id. black and 2d. blue of 1840. Government to step in, as they did Simplifyd Speling Sesyeti and dhe grate impressed there whose resources were in course of the addition of the word "Volkstaat? That of Mr. L. O. Trivett included during the war, and control prices, children development under the direction of a, or "Friestaat" on their contemporary also numerous examples. of proofs which could only be done by nation listeners, when diay red. passages Sum littel British military mission. For the postage stamps. The introduction and assays. A notable item was alisation. There will be no middle from speshul books.
a proof of the mother-die of the party between labour and capital," children red peeses selekted bi mem- first postage stamp, engraved by he said. "The middle classes havebers of dhe awediens, and did dhem Heath. Only three of these proofs got to make up their mind to join the ampel justis. exist, the second being in the collec Labour Party, and get rid of all pec-
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One cheild red from an advaned. tion of the King, and the other in ple who do not work. When I heard histori book quite cezili, while an the possession of the engraver's that Lenin had Introduced com- other red from Alis in Wunder- descendants. A collection of the pulsory labour for everybody. I land," much to the delite of chose of triangular stamps of the Cape of became a convinced and enthusiastic presunt.
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