1933-02-18 — Page 7

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1933.

Romance Of Stamp Collecting

Printing Mistakes

Worth Money

INDIA ISSUE CAUSES TROUBLE

(By W. K. BLISS).

ROYAL LIFE SAVING “SOCIETY.

Courses Modified For

Scouts & Guides.

REVISED HAND-BOOK.

THE CHINA MAIL.

To-Day's Short Story. THE

DEVIL'S

By Barnard

Stacey.

APE

While on Home leave, Mr. R. cedar fire three men sat talks-poor Hugh.”

IN the cheerful glow from a at the Inquest, too, afterwards, on J. Hunt who is the local represen-

tative and Examiner of the Roy-ing in serious tones, then lapsing

converted into

He stopped for the emotion to "We know al Life Saving Society, attended into silence; anxious-eyed, stern- clear from his voice. many meetings and demonstra-faced, struggling with their the coroner'e verdict, but tell us

frankly, what did happen 1" tions of the Society in London, fears.

had The atmosphere

become "Was there any reason for Nickey and has been asked to publish the

Mason felt their search- following:---

to think he'd done it?" asked Parker strained.

ing glances, but he didn't look up.1 So great has been the demand suddenly.

"What-killed Hugh?" flared He refilled his pipe. Then he faced London. Owing to the scarcity of the stamps for the Hand-Book that it has

"I'll take my them.. The gold rush has produced a in issue the dealers were able to been found necessary to issue an Wynch scornfully.

Well, I'll tell you," he said in a baby brother. It is the postage-force up the price to collectors, 18th edition. The work ha oath he didn't. We ate our Temple stamp rush.

For a time the scheme succeeded, been carefully revised in order dinners together before he took up weary tone, "then you can decide

I know Nickey."

for yourselves. Personally, I can't, Foreigners are buying our pos- and it is alleged that some of the to make everything more clear to painting.

The two older men looked at him but I must say this first to clear as it is"-he tage stamps-not the sort you lesser republics balanced their the learner.

my practice, such indulgently. The signal marks of Royal fa- get at post office, but budgets by this method, but dealers that vast accumulation of collec- and collectors brought the ramp to your conferred by His Majesty "So do 1," said Mason quietly, waved his K.C. and knighthood airily

evidence. 'teeth. tions that has made London the an end by refusing to deal in such the King have been most encour- rattling his pipe stem between his away-on facts

It's the royal road to aging and have greatly assisted, centre of the stamp-dealing, issues.

Forgers also have worked hard to the Society in making Life Sav-i

"Then you know he didn't" press- Law-so that I'm not a man easily stamp-collecting, world.

ed Wynch aggresively.

spoofed or spoonfed. on the value of stamps.ing more popular among th

"The day the Huntsby rase There is good reason for the cash-in

"I tell you I don't know," repeat- eagerness of these purchasers. There are few varieties of valuable people and in the Schools of the'ed Mason doggedly. The others collapsed so, dramatically I found! They are buying a commodity alamps that have not been counter- Empire.

With the object of encouraging

looked at him suspiciously and myself at six o'clock with a free I was at a loose that holds its value in the inter-feited at one time or other. Dealers national markets no matter how and collectors have their own members holding the Bronze MeWynch clutched the arms of his evening for once.

chair.

jend, too tired to bother about dress- the pound rises or falls, and with world-wide "C. I. D." for the detec-dallion, or higher awards of the

"What?" he demanded, but Masoning, so I slipped into a grill room It Wa Marly the pound at present rates they tion of such philatelic crimes, and Society, to keep themselves

didn't answer.

Parker bent for and dined alone. are, on currency exchange, get- the forger is rarely successful now-ficent in Life Saving a new ward and cleared his throat.

when I'd finished, so I strolled into ting better value than ever. adays. Even so, there still meets award, a bar to the Bronze Me- "We're all friends of Nickey's the Mail wondering where to make Many foreign dealers are pay-regularly in London a jury of ex- dallion has been instituted. This he said soothingly. "Real friends; for next, when I suddenly thought ing cheques into their accounts perts to decide whether any pat. will consist of two bronze bars on but you were the only one of us with of Nickey. with London firms now and leay- ticular stamp is genuine or forga ribbon in the Society's colours. him that evening, Muson-with

To encourage Branches of the him all the ing the actual purchase of stampsed, and they are considered the fin- over to a later date. At a well-al court of appeal in the stamp-cel-Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, etc, to take up. the modified course, a special Badge woven in silk has been instituted to be worn on their uniform if successful in

saw

lecting world. I

known Strand auction room

one such cheque, from al Swiss firm, for the equivalent of over £1000.

Precious Mistakes.

In philately printers errors have a very special value.

It is not only the foreigner There is a West Australian stamp with a swan printed upside-down. who is investing in postage

The shrewd British Thanks to this printer's error, the stamps. collector is doing it as well. Hestamp is worth £809 instead

little or nothing. A 24 cent U. S.

of

ef-

qualifying for same. This Badge may be seen on application.

Illustrated Calenders, revised Hand Books and all particulars

does it in a highly selective wayair mail stamp had an airplane in./may be had on application to:- like a City speculator dealing verted. That accidental looping of with stocks and shares. He has

the loop is worth about £700 to

a shrewd idea what type of pos-t tage stamp is likely to hold it those lucky enough to own it. A value or show an increase and Cape of Good Hope fourpenny trian- the present market report, to use gular blue was produced by a dou- ble-printing process, the "Cour-

something like this:

Stock Exchange parlance, runs pence" going on at the second priut

ing. Once the printer ran a bluci Air mail issues are firmer sheet through the machine that was carly British Colonials are a good lock-up; War issues have printing the penny issue. Nobody

noticed it. Net result:

slumped owing to forgeries. and South and Central Ameri- cans are little sought after. Investors.

Mr. Harmer, of Harmer. Rooke und Co., who every month sells hundreds of collections from all

parts of the world, told me: "I have ane client, a very wealthy man, who has invested over £20,000 in the Jast two or three years in stampa." At a London philatelic club one official confessed that every penny he possesses in the world is in

stead of £10 each stamp,

dollars.

£185 in-

a proper

S.-L. R. J. Hunt, H. K. Police, Central Police Station.

SOUTH AMERICA'S "HAPPY" XMAS

You went to

"I hadn't seen him for ages, so I time. You were jumped into a taxi.

his rooms, didn't you, Wynch?"

Wynch nodded. "They were in the same building as Hugh's" be

EUROPEAN WOMENmuttered.

TOO CIVILISED.

Comparison With Orientals.

#

"Yes, Hugh lived Immediately above Nickey. His study was plumb Re- over Nickey's sitting-room. member that: it's important. Nickey had

ПІДП with him-Char- lie Somers; I hadn't seen him be- fore. Nice chap, with boyish smile. Well, Nickey was in great The view that European wo- form. Apparently they'd been rag- men have become "too civilised" ging Hugh and he'd got huffy. was expressed at meeting of Threatened to complain or some- the Congress of Women of the thing-he was like that-and final-| Orient here, which was attended by he'd turned them out and locked by representatives of Egypt, himself in. Iraq, Syria and Perma.

Teheran.

It was contended that because European women have becorat Whole Country Upset too civilised they have lost most

By Troubles.

CHACO " · A'RMISTICE.”

Buenos Aires,

of the tenderness and sentimen- talism which Nature gave them. Oriental women, not so civilised, continue to enjoy, such gifts of nature as tenderness and pity more fully.

Women of the West were In South America the Birth-stated to think that material

MONDAY'S STORY,

Monday's story will be. "Wanted For Murder," by Antony Marsden,

Dealers will tell you of an Ameri ean boy who bought a G cent stamp for a dime or two, and then came back indignantly to the dealer com Plaining that the centre was upside-

He demanded down. specimen. He got it, and the deal- er sold the faulty specimen at 1

"We three nat amoking and chat- collector's price of over a thousand day of the Prince of Peace found things are more important and ting about Nickey's latcat picture-

(1) Paraguay and Bolivia therefore too disdain to pay at-la modern Dante and Beatrice, He'd All mistakes on stamps are not pausing for 24 hours in the Chice tention to their human senti-just bought a new lay figure; life- necessarily money-making. Some War in which it is estimated ments. It was maintained that size thing it was, all jointed, and ex-more than 70,000 troops have morally the Oriental woman had Nickey was very excited about it. are merely ridiculous, as, for stamps, and he could sell out at a ample, when Newfoundland pro-been engaged since July, of whom an incontestible supremacy over Showed us how it worked, and stuck good profit. Many club members (duced a postage stamp seal with 30,000 have been killed, wounded the woman of the West.-Reuter, it up in all sorts of poses. They have followed suit. One barrister fore paws like a cat, and St. Kitts- or ill, and 6,000 made prisoner. member bought a collection some Nevis, in a "discovery of America" (2) Peru, Colombia and Brazil| years ago for £120, and unloads a issue, showed Columbus with a col- mobilizing on the tri-national few sheets of it every other week lapsible telescope at his eye. That border near Leticia in the Peru- for auction under roserve. He has already got his £120, back, and still Leicscope was just about a hundred vian-Colombia boundary dispute has a large part of the collection to years before its time. Not content over the headwaters of the with that, St. Kitts-Nevis made Co- Amazon. Peru has planes, menj lumbus clean-shaven In the one and gunboats in the region and cent stamps, and gave him a beard Colombia, has an armada at on the two cents.

Bell.

There are fortunes in stamps. In- deed, the most valuable thing in the world, judged on the weight basis, is the 1-cent black on magenta Bri- tish Gulana of 1856, produced as

Rebellion Averted. Mistakes on stamps can be serious. There was the beautiful camel post

Para, Brazil, seeking to proceed there, while Brazil martinis 2,000 men and two cruisers in the region to protect her inter-

a make-shift by a local printer with issue in the Sudan, a picturesque ests as a neutral.

BRITISH WHISKY LABELS FORGED.

American Racketeers' New Plan.

London. Racketeers in America who forge the labels of British

government problem for distillers here...

The labels are used on the

get those things up so well now, it was almost real.

"Presently there was a ring at the bell, and Nickey went to the door himself. It was a parcel→ left by some poor little wretch who'd been told to leave it on his way

home, and had lost his way, and was crying. You know how crazy! Nickey is over children! He fung: the parcel on the table-dashed about finding cake and fruit, gave the lad all his spare silver and some of mine, and sent him home in a

"When he came to look at the

stamp that was covered by every (3) Argentina under a state of whisky brands are causing a taxi. schoolboy. Tha Sudanese liked it selge while

the

hers.

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JUST

It

the aid of a picture of a ship copied from a newspaper. Some years ago an American paid £7000' for that till they discovered that the water-finishes scotching an Yrigoyenist} square inch of paper.

mark was cross-shaped. Then there plot to overthrow President Justo. bottles which contain bootleg parcel, it wasn't for him at all.

was addressed to Hugh. In the Ever since that stamp, and the was trouble. Fanatical Sudanese (4) Equador and Chile on the liquor made by the racketeers. equally famous Mauritius 1847 is refused to buy, the stampe be- threshold of constitutional gov-Customers who buy a particular dark the boy had mistaken the num sucs (which you will find catalogued cause it meant putting their lips toernments after a year of civil brand insist on an appropriate

"Nickey thought it a-great joke, to-day in the dealers' lists at from the cross. Eventually the followers wars.

label and they frequently send He pictured Hugh waiting patiently £3500 to £5000) topped the £1000 of the Prophet had to be placated (5) Brazil hoping to restore the label back to the firm con- mark many years ago, collectors with a water-mark that was a cres-constitutionality in 1933 after cerned in England or Scotland for Bed socks or chest protectors, have been on the look-out for trea- cent, and a threatened rising was the most costly civil war in to inquire if the trade-mark is Hugh was such an ideal man to rag,

South American history,Reu-genuine. War-time occupations, with con- There was also trouble in India inter, sequent changes in stamps, provid- King George's coronation year, 1911. ed some astute officers with for. A spécial issue showed the King Lunes. When British troops oc-wearing the Order of the Indian cupied Bagdad one officer bought up Empire, but the pendant in this almost the entire stock of Indian miniature form looked more like a

The forthcoming weddings are stamps that were first franked for pig than an elephant. There was a

Mr. William the Army of Occupation. He sold hullabaloo, for the pig is unclean to announced between sets of fifteen varieties for as much the Mohammedan, and a new design Scott, marine engineer, c/o Mesora. as £400 through a London dealer, was lesued.

|Butterfield and Swire, and Mins

sure trove in stamps.

laverted.

News In Brief.

Unwisely, he held back some sots in The biggest stamp sensation The Alice Reld, en route for the Colony the hope of the price rising. In-world has known was produced by per as, Chitral; and between Mr. stead it fell, and he had to dispose a Nicaraguan issue of over thirty David Lyon, mercantile engineer, of his lust sets at #120.

"Stamp Racketeering."

years ago. The United States Sen-[c/o Messrs. Jardine Matheson and

with his frog's eyes behind those thick lenses. He'd not an atom of Now the British firms are humour, Fancy a man setting out devising a series of invisible to be a surgeon and hating the sight! marks on the labels for their

of blood! protection-Router,

ORGAN RECITAL.

Mr. Mason Delights At Cathedral.

"Then Nickey had a brain wave. He suggested we should open. The old parcel and send Hugh some boots and rubbish, and before we could stop him he'd cut the string. In the paper was an old book→→ solema-looking tome, musly and yellow with age. He turned the pages over in disgust-couldn't read a word of it-and passed it over to

u

I thought it was Chinese, the

ste had to vote on a choice of routes Co., and Misa Agries Anderson, re- Assisted by the Cathedral choir, State Governments have not been for the Panama Canal-one through siding at Empress Lodge, Kowloon, an organ recital in aid of the Or characters looked so weird, but Ban Fund, was given at St. John's Somers, who is apparently an au- averse from a little "racketeering" Nicaragua, another through Panam In postage stamps. This used to be ma. The objection advanced to the Lenter discussions for women Cathedral laat evening, attended, thority on dead languages, became barticularly rife in some of the Nicaraguan route was the possibl-will be held by the Bishop of by a large congregation to quite interested, and took the book.

The organist, Mri Frederick on his knee, Bouth and Central American relity of volcanic activity. Support-Victoria at the Helena May Instit publics. The cash value of philate ers of the Panama route found aule on Fridays at 10.30 am, to Mason, A.R.CO., LT.C.L, was in It's Banskrit, he pronounced, ly caused thens Slates to change Nicaraguan stamp on which was a 11.50 'uân, starting from March 3. fine form and rendered selections the ancient and sacred language of about, Devil- their alamp issues even oftener than picture of a volcano near the pro- Subjects are--1. "Is there meaning, from the works of Wagner, Dvorak, India, Lord! It's they did their Presidents.

posed canal, with a feather of in evil?" 2, The dangers of Con- Mendelssohn, Cyril Brott; and Worship/

The method was to bring oub" a smoke coming from the top, ./

debug version): 3, "Jin't praying: taking others. new issue of stamps, sell them for On the morning of the vote each an advantage What a short time in post offices, then sonator received a postcard bearing happened on Easter Monday" 5, be disposa ( of the remainder to Con- this lamp and the words 101- "Miracles": 6, "Life/aftop Death." I tinental dealers by arrangement: ficlal evidence of valcaniu motivity!! Thes merkings are open All we real

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