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A
HISTORY OF THE KING'S STAMP COLLECTION:
મને
MAMMOTH TASK COMPLETED
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By E. R. YARHAM
There OR nearly five years Confederation of 1869.
Sir John Wilkon, were several mindreds, prepared and arranged by the Philatelic Bt, Keeper of the pivision of the Post Office De King's Stamps, and partment of the Dominion; and Mr. Clarence Winchester, presented personally the King
George by thePostmaster the well-known author, General of Canada, Senat have. been engaged on an unprecedented task. This is à compilation of the most issues of both World Wars. The important volume on stamp Army and Navy were well collecting ever received aware of King George' V's the complete official history hobby, and between 101 and of his Majesty's collection; 1918, when provisional issues of which consists of nearly stamps were made by our. Farces 250,000 stamp. In: 380:large la occupation of German albums in the Royal stamp territory, it became a loyal and room in Buckingham Palace, pleasurable practice 40 see that although during the war the most perfect set was sent they were removed to safe for, his Majesty's gracious, de- storage.
***Included," In the Royal col- Jection are many rare war
There are other great.collee Alons of stamps in the world, but none can compare with this. When his Majesty's father died It was reckoned to be worth £500,000, and our present monarch is constantly adding to
ceptance. In the same way, in recent years, King George VI's collection has been added to by many special issues, t
Keen Interest
AB has been suggested,""; "tho Dominions and Colonies have delichted to send new,&s for the Royal" collection, " and
It is difficult to single out or they sometimes add", unusual
Items in
in the way origing particular mention any one por-sketches and proof impressions. My tion of the King's collection, This last aspect is one which which covers the whole gamut of makes the Kings collection
Οι His from unique.
stamps, the Imperial stamp issues
Great
Britain section is probably to Zanzibar, Antigua
for,
the most completo because it in- although it is planned on more cludes so many items in the or less general lines, it is highly way of original drawings, specialised as regards a number
proofs, of Colonies and Protectorates.
time he will be killer. pound notes are on Turpin.
There is a strenuous attempt to build up Jersey Joe Walcott, the new heavyweight cham plon, as a great ring personality But it not very convincing.
I think there are too much saw-dust and tinsel in Ameri- 'can entertainment. A man can tire of superlatives,
! FILMLAND
First Ranking
essays, and similar necessities for they, Inguo ant stamps, that cannot possibly ba duplicated. Jenny
Because he himself is such a
the
happenedal
in
We haven't had a new out-
the Mauritius section ranks takes much more than a per- the
functory Interest in the new Still years.
same old was only trying to help there by driving
Inspector, was hurt. "I ful tale. We have been whipped Cormick, the heirs of Capinin standing screen personally for ROM the point of value alone keen philatelist; in the King rainstorms, Wild Patterson: Greetings to all of names-Gable, Calman, Grant, possibly frat with its pair of issues of all Erilish stamps. isn't
among the males, "Post Office" rarities (id and Those have a reputation for a much In England any winds, and hall. We have been
but
is not world and Cooper you,
of the high and Crawford, Davis and Gar-28.), the unused copy
standard of production floods which more, is, there?"
Like struck by flash
leadership..
collectors in would although swamped underground
Well, twonenny value being the nest rali-
son among the ferpales.
to see more variety and some There isn't much in England,
It streets, and cellars, and
is also a puzzle and the good ones certainly last. ways,
known, example of this classic times he has vetoed a design I have heard that ever since marooned some
houses in the
to Americans enigma
that
by stamp, which is a relle of the already got back to New York and I suburbs. We have been saturat-
Britain should apparently
days when an old watch-maker even heard it frequently
ed by Turkish-bath tempera- Canada.
tures and plagued by mos- have handed the negotiation
ball to Averell Hurriman, in the ILLIAN and Dorothy Gish-struck the stamps of the land the case of Pitcairn, the of the King Bounty routineers. It was given quitoes.
present oil crisis Are there no remember them?are both singly with a hand-die.
Its first postage. alamps in
1940 plays and George V puld. £1,450 for this but his Majesty was not satis Britishnegollators? Are we decorating stage
writing their out of his own private purse, fled with the design of the six- really so feeble that we cannot considering
The Gishes could but its value.
showing the valub, today may be pty". Itself. The handle our own business in our memoirs.
make readers gasp. bwn way?
said, to lie anywhere between
himself was trained as a saflor, Burt Lancaster will probably £5,000 and £7,000.
of
Sutland. and was at the Battle co-star in the Rita Hayworth come-back. The
CONVINCED
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in
We have built big aigns on on Long Island export during the highways Obst few years
has which say: "This pathway will be closed in the event of been misery. We have shipped
chemy attack .to all vehicles Buch
a.Cargo of complaints.
De and Civil abroad and emphasised, austerity except Army
have considered 50 much that the North fence." We
using same of the air-raid Americans, below and above the Border,
are thoroughly sirens twice a week instead of A convinced that the British Isles just once.
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at breakfast said: "It's it is obvious
TURPIN
*King
Aly and the Mention of this rarity is and he declared the ship could Aga have no influence with interesting because it illustrates not all as the artist had de- her. So the design:ros Hollywood spinsters.
the way in which the Royal
wood.
op-
exchange.
1:
On Exhibit
MERICANS psic these but really they questions, are more interested in the visit of Randolph Turpin. Mr Turpla Claudette Colbert has return-stomp collection has been bullf cannot get here too soon as for ed to the stage in triumph up in the, main. Some people as the vast American boxing after all those years in Holly-imagine that his Majesty, and his
She adoros In Canada the atlitude Is WWE have all got into a fine publie is concerned....
the new father before him acquired thelet sympathetic. On the train from flurry about Spain and
play, "Island
Fling by Noel, stamps chilefly through gifts. HE Royal collection, contains I am worried about the fuss Coward a fire comedy. Winnipeg
Montreal to
The Spanish the General Franco.
This is not so, for both have a very fine Plicairn porles, and over this
when a few years back! ardent travelling salesman Opposite question is a big question, and that will be made.
that
Some good British. President fine lad.
Stewart Granger Insists he is insisted on working through the stamp collectors in the Royal 1 Philarelle wonderful how the people in Truman's Government is deter boxers have come here and going back to Africs to shoot usual channels of purchase and Navy formed
been, ruined by recep- lions, not ims. His studio,
iety, his Majesty lent them the Old Country have kept their mined to press on where the have
.of his collection (including spirits up not enough to eat, is late Admiral Sherman left off. tions, celebrations, and general, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
him the
ve Fitcalfré stamps) fo on ex- there? No good times any more This is no doubt sound defence good times organised by good-parently considers
Unique Error hottest box-office property since
This is typical His like there used to be."
strategy and mast necessary, but Lime Charleys.
Robert Taylor.
esty's desire to share the surely there is no need to tell
NOTHER incident, on this pleasure of his shames with King George VI others. For although the Stamp occasion. being the keen philatelist, sypl- Room at Buckingham Palace fes this, A stamp booklet, of open to the public, parts of are frequently the collection offices, the kind sold by post
sent to
to exhibillots to was discovered
have two 12d, stamps. printed
upside Sometimes they have gone
to known down, an error
to ́world. collectors as a "tele-boche" pair. The King was very keen to add
autumn when he sent 60 sheets truce this; unique error to his colier of stamps to
on , exhibition' at
to com
I said: "There is a meat Americans to dance to shortage, but there is enough to Spanish fandango. ent, and there are plenty of
I hope Turpin will turn down a
Optimistic note in show busi- all invitations and go into strict training and stay there until he nesmusement stocks are up good times. You have heard of The way some of the Press enters the ring against Sugar 75 percent since 1949. However, I hope he will you still risk your neck when the Festival of Britain,
In Bim you would Ray. Robinson.
risk your money" of here are behaving course. Well, I tell you London think
that the Spanish are melt Sugar again, although the you
Is on stock.. smart money today is goyer and handsomer
more desirable allies than the alleged
those who Hollywood says Sometimes and more dressed-up than any British or French.
Robinson to win.
suffer most from inflation are place I've visited recently, I feel I would be treated belter
alibl The
concerning the often the people who cause it a Franco- elther in Canada or the United here if I were States."
from London fight is that Sugar Ray follower,
ex-Nazl an
Footnote: In Korea Germany, or a
Japanese hot had gone soft playing the social The millstone of mythical misery has to be carried around shot. Mr Hearst, Colonel Me- round in Europe, but that next looks stranger than fiction.
the New World by any traveller returning from" England, and it is a dead weight and a dead loss, I am tired of it. It is time we threw it away.
REALLY HOME?
THENEVER
WH
newspaper
I pick up
of listen to al
broadcast I am told about the
grimness and
Teyness of the
Prof.
comes
Higgins
to life
CHAPMAN PINCHER COLUM N
may be moulded by it. Faces for, Hlagins's address STOCKHOLM,
and voices seem to match,
if our snap
British way of life. There a find out
Voice is probably a better arfother financial crisis, there judgments of strangers guide to social standing In are to be further hardships and
generally are.
accurate Britain than in any other coun- greater racrificea,
because differences
део "closa dialect". Sometimes. I wonder if I ever psychologists have devised really spent those ten weeks at an intriguing guessing nounced, says
professor. home. That was London I anw
game.
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Collars ond eliminated from
能
he re ferred her to Professor Porr.
POPTIMISTIC SEX
tion, and he paid £135 for the booklet.
other side of the the Idea This was the dust
Melbourne,
the
The
centenary of memorate the cente Brat issue in Victoria It is on record that a former stamps included a dozen, sheets owner of the world's rarest of 1 The arst New *South Wales stamp, the 1 cent British Guiana, issues, known as theBydney 1858, once sought permission to view," and another dozen sheets present it to the Royal collec of the first Victorian issue. Hon. The offer was firmly but
dously
are
not private collectors
say that the
because One of the most extraordinary ted from stories about Royal stamps goes This is not to back to 1864, when some 80- Royal, philatelic called "Royal Reprints" saw the
of light
in accordance with day in
treasures have not been enrich-
from ed
2
Lime
from time to
of other are request. The Prince of Wales (atterwards Edward VII), the thoughtfulness
his brother, the Duke of Con- collectors and by
presenta stamps WOMEN are generally more tions of
made by naught, and his nephew, the late optimistle than men, and Dominion and Colonial Govern German Kaiser, were all seized 80 pro have a stronger desire to live ments and Native princes in the with the stamp collecting fever, the 64-year-old dangerously, according to a form of souvenirs of some of the and very naturally wanted the
scientide quiz carried out here. Royal tourange
world's first stamp, the famous "Penny Black""with which to decorate the opening pages their; albums,/
the
wasn't (17 Floodlit at night,
tles were Mont
their rate women with great crowds thronging
pictures chances of surviving operations tho Embankment and the Professor Tom Hatherley Pear streets full of fine cars.
(pronounced Peer), of Man Used in the test to avoid giving much higher than men And .clucs, but Pear has found that a they usually expect to llva chester University, has just man's hair style often betrays longer. Those were Brilish shops, weren't they packed with tied out the game at a mass his job. goods and lammed with shop meeting of 450 psychologists pers? The tour of the Provinces, here in: Stockholm.
As
Valuable Gifts
"Reprints"
a request was sent to the Post Office to supply needed specimen. But there. W-Wrent reserves there n keon were none.
Kibe were had been exhaused. But fetler,
WayThat
The quiz showed that people hues on the request:had to be met some
tseemed not;
As an example of the kindnes A of a fellow-collector, when Ave the day and night sle mail Two women in every tested think that danger is service across the United States the spice of life. But only one was inaugurated the head of where every hotel was booked close-ups of men's, nices
Norfolk-born Fear, whose man in every five enjoys take the Post Office division of the up and overy, other man was a
Customs House, home-town booster, did take flashed on to a screen, we own voice has acquired a re- ing risks.
and sent cognisable Mancunian quality, If My friends asked to fudge, their occupa place, didn't
the railway who...arrive, at
mall for his Majesty Ameult, bacoure pal. ARIANA berg.
doubt it, and I'm even and social status, then we tries theg delayed, experiments with beginning to wonder
station long before their train And many years before (1893), to wonder myself. Judging rush botground women's voices and faces..
la due to leave are usually the occasion of his marriage, nenedary, was o clean a plate of Everyone living here is auto- from a record of his voice, Women are harder to map pessimistle in other ways, an album of valimbles stamps the red stamga hon in usor and wedding gifts, reprint them in hack and that matically the target for pets Finally we tried to up re judge than men, because, most
The fact that women so wake among tent propaganda,glorifying the corded voices with -- the tik
of then falsify their real features American way of life and de- racon....
with cosmetics, he says. And, often catch trains of the last the token of the good wishes of, wat sotually done and doubtin bunking all others. We are all
for inore women than men de moment or just miss them may the members of the London the young collectors were pare
recessively: ferntoly bequire a "cultured" be further evidence of their Philatelle Bodley, of which the factly trafine W
optimism, the de
dent and patron
But moderntal presiden accent.
Arter studying human vocer for 26 yours sehr in;m Skying- pri of Bernard Shaw as Profesor Higgins, the actionat
so industrineled with megazine Artis
monstruo advertisements that the dream Results of this demonstration world of swimming pools, look plus six months of money convertible motor care, country tally controlled experimetra cruiser labour paringi kitchens, Manchester, strongly supp and batiroomm 88:17 (13) tamil- Loomis has le entradas Ameri: instinctive belief that a man dancethacious her boy face and voice gre tall, guides, in
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