HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
THE KING OF HOBBIES
10 Million Stamp Collectors In The United States
One May morning, ninety-nine years ago the couriers in England delivered letters on which a small label had been pasted to show that the postage fee had been paid in advance by the sender. The label was black and bore a likeness of the young Queen Victoria, writes Henny Bellamann.
It was the first postage stamp.
Old gentlemen shook their heads and said, "What will they think of next?" They gave the stamps to the children and the first stamp collectors were made then and there.
No
Next year, for the hundredth short of the selling figure. anniversary of the issuance of one would venture to say what these Mttle labels, England will this stamp will bring when It goes hold a huge celebration with a under the hammer again. world-wide exhibit at Earl's Court However, few collectors aspire. in London. There will. be dis- to the rarer items; fewer still can tinguished juries to judge the afford them. The average collec- priceless collections, handsome tor has quite different interests.
doubtless prizes, and.
A special The average collector is the One morning in a stamp to commemorate the cen average man. tenary".
West Forty-Second Street shop in
Carpets Sell Carpets Sell Over The Seven Seas
British carpet. manufacturers report increasing wartime exports to Empire and certain neutral countries although they have turn- ed out more than one million blankets for the Forces,
FINANCE & GENERAL
CHINESE CHINESE GOODWILL MISSION TO INDIA
"I am carrying back to China more than, I brought to India." said His Excellency Tai Chi-tao, President of the Examination Yuan and member of the State Council of the National Government of China, in an interview on the conclusion of his visit to India.
As leader of the Chinese Goodwill Mission, His Excellency arrived in India a month ago and visited Buddhist sacred places in the country and met leaders in the different provinces,
He
era in the history of the
was accompanied by Mr. between the two nations will not In one week a big Scottish Arm Tsuang-lien Shen. Councillor for only be confined to the limits of received orders for carpets from Economic Affairs of the Supreme their own countries but will open a the Faroe Islands, Trinidad, Peru Council of National Defence, Mr. new and Iceland: it has exported more Ango Tal, Engineer of the Govern-world. carpets to the Empire and to neument Arsenal (the son of the lea- "What we have seen, heard and tra countries in the first six mon-der), and Mr. Shih Hwa Shen, observed lead us to admire the in- the of this year than in the pre- Manager of the Export Trading nuence of the cultural force of vious twelve months, and for the Corporation. The party have left the Indian people which is greater last fifty years has been sending for China.. carpets to
than we had expected. The exis Australia without - a
tence of such a spirit here makes. break.
us Chinese more courageou3,"'
Concluding; His Excellency salo "I feel very thankful because I am i
home more
than 1 Carrying brought to India from our country. and this we, the Chinese, will
Today British carpet- manu- facturers are carrying large stocks in Australia to meet the big demand there.
In his parting message to the Indian people, His Excellency said: "During my short tour of Indla I was accorded a very cordial recep- tion and given all kinds of assig- tance by the Government authorl New Zealand's Imports are limitties for which I and my party are
deeply thankful"
There have been nearly 100,000 New York City the writer tocked only by the quota. different stamps issued by some note of the customers during the Canada, too, is steadily increas 200 countries during these ninety first half hour of business. Thereing her carpet orders, indeed Bri
nine years. Collecting began ear-was first the head of one of the tih carpet man facturers are the ly. First, small collections of used great steamship companies look-making special fabrics for
curiosities; then ing for a Number One Saxony for Canadian market. Popular colours stamps kept as more important collections of un- his collection of German states. are fawn, beige and green.
buying used examples. Very soon collec- Next was a LOTS began to specialise one Central American air-mails which
traffic сор
South Africa, la proportion to its
white population, is a very heavy country or one kind of stamp he checked from a stamp maga. buyer, and carpet market research
Royalty joined th the pastime zine. Following came
a fifteen- is now being carried out to ascer and someone called it "the hobby year-old boy buying a package of tain preferences of taste in mate- of kings and the king of hobbles" a "thousand, all different" for one rial and colours there. The phrase stuck,
dollar; then a retired merchant
OBJECT OF TOUR.
The object of his tour, he ex
never forget"
plained, was to call on a friendly "GALLOPING had enjoyed for many years and neighbour whose friendship thes
sympathetic support their national cause had won their gratitude,
whose
to GERTIE"
BREAKS UP
com-
"In all the places that I have visited the warmth with which 1
The great suspension bridge over was received by the leaders of the Puget Sound, near Tacoma, in the Indian people, scholars and State of Washington. broke in half
recently, presentatives of diferent
Nobody was on the bridge at the
Porter who had gone out on it in his car when it was first seen to be cracking escaped only by crawling 500 yards while the road bed was; tipping to an angle of 45 degrees. OPENED IN JULY
Here and there shrewd indivi- who spends thousands each year the political or economic reasons duals saw the commercial aspects on his collection; & hotel clerk for the issue, the events communities, makes me more firmly of stamp collecting. Dealers in asking for new issues of Madagas-memorated, the significance of convinced that the historic friend-time the break occurred, but a re- "obliterated" "(used) stamps were car; and a white-haired old lady the national symbols, and much ship between India and China is not uncommon in the late sixties who was a specialist.
more. All of this is a part of the now again a Hving force. The in- During that decade D. Appleton All retail dealers collect; whole- fascination of the subject.
fluence of the revival of friendship and Company published an album salers almost never, "They have and "J.' W. Scott, a stamp fancler. (no" sympathy for stamps" "one
laid the woundation of the great foreign expert remarked. Norman HONGKONG SHARE
stamp house known today as the Herphos, the new president of Scott Stamp and Coln, Company. Scott and Company; has one of the Stamp collecting had become great collections of air-malls. business.
DIFFERENT ANSWER
COUNTERFEITS
Why do they collect? Each col- Next came counterfeits and then lector will have a different answer experts to detect them. Societies to this question.. in the main. were formed for the exchange of people collect stamps for the same information. A word was coined: reasons that other people chaum philately: Specialists were called pipes, or snuff boxes-for fun. It philatelista. On March 1, 1868, is the only good reason. the "American Journal of Philately was issued with Scott as its edi- tor. Stamp collecting had become a science.
than A
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Collecting itself is right-hand, first cousin to the acquisitive in stinct. That is why so mary small boys and so few girls—are Today there are 10,000,000 col collectors. Collecting stamps lectors in the United States-one (something more
hobby. out of every thirteen persons. The process enters almost at once The selling of stamps, a vest, in- into phases of research with pre- ternationally related activity, is clsely the saine method involved one of the major businesses of the as in botanical or zoological study world. In New York City alone -the scrutiny of character and something like 5,000 people are variation, the identification, classl- employed in this business and its fication, and so on.
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(some
Immediate ramifications. The an- The real philatelist is a pretty nual expenditure by collectors good scientist and a first-rate re- must easily be above $100,000,000, search man. There is the paper In the upper brackets the in endless varieties; watermarks, stamps are rarer than fine often difficult to identify: Einds of jewels; and they cost more. The printing and engraving men who sell them are rellable stamps are engravings. some are experts, as expert and honour-lithographs or typographs, some able as the great jewel merchants. are printed on
flat-bed presses, The one-cent magenta of British some 03 rotary presses-which Gulana, for instance, brought alters the size of the stamp and $50,000 when sold at auction in creates a minor variety); kinds of Paris some years, ago; It was jink; varieties
perforations of bought by Mr. Hinds of Utica, with technical names from several New York. The agent of King languages. Back of the actual V bid on it, but stopped definition of the stamp itself. lie George
Cottage Industry Thrives
In Alor Star Village
of time
In a rural atmosphere, unruffled by the maren and undisturbed by the progress of civilisation, one seldom ex- pects to find signs of any attempt at originality, the kampong folk being mostly hewers of wood, drawers of water or tillers of the soll, as their forefathers had been before them for countless generations.
But if one takes the trouble to the quaint apparatus with its go on a stroll in the small village rolls and rolls of green cotton of Pekan Satu some 14 miles from thread.
Alor Star, one
GIRL WORKERS curiosity took me to,, ali
sees the skill and Ingenuity that has lifted the lives The of a family from the rut to a post- elderly looking Chinese woman tion of standing and affluence in who studiously showed the the the comparative quiet of rural principles upon which the spinning kampong life. writes a 'Malaya Jenny and the wheels were work- Tribune reporter.
ed, not-unlike those found in big
For it is here that the crudely factories in towns, the only ex- shaped spinning jenny, which has ception being that possibly more withstood the test of time, has crude machines cannot be obtain-- been successfully installed to pro- Jed elsewhere. ¡vide work for half a dozen Chi-
· nese girls and bringing a good in- come to a family.
In typically quiet setting, the small but thriving indus- be seen in try can
progress daily by the most casual pas- serby, for the spinning wheels are located just at the en- trance to a simple, unpreten- tious attap house, giving the premises a more dignified ap- .pearance.
It is this borrowed grandeur
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Amery, Secretary för India, in' reply to a question in the House of Commons yesterday.
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About six girls are engaged to do the spinning and weaving the threads into rolls of cotton cloth, The girls can, change fromï elott: weaving to mosquito net manu- facture by a simple but ingenious device
The weaving machines are locut-
$19 17
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led at the back purtion" of the $10.95 $11
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$7.70
On an estimate about 20 rolls
which attracted me to that house of cotton cloth can be made in a
of industry" and to satisfy myself day, the daily profit averaging
of the curiosity born on aight of $12
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Soon after the bridge was opened it developed a weaving motion, always accentuated by the wind. which won for it the nickname tend with a tide of eight miles an "Galloping Gertie." In building the hour, and it was found necessary bridge the engineers had to con- to sink its piers to a depth of 247ft.
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