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THE STAMP COLLECTOR'S CORNER

By Muriel Nissẹn-

THE OLD ORDER CHANGETH

FOR many British possessions, the

""new reign" postage paper now being issued inaugurates a brand now 'stamp era, Several colonies whose stamps have heretofore pic- tured royal portraits only, are chang- ing over to pictorial designs, and a very good job they are doing of it,

too.

One of these new sets comes from the island of St. Vincent in the West Indies, and is designed as follows:

d., green and blue-badge of the colony (the figures of "Peace and Justice")." 12d., crimson and green-view of Kingstown and Fort Charlotte. 1d.; red-brown and blue-view of Youngs Island and Fort Du- vernette:

2d., blue and green-badge of the

'colony.

2d., blue-green and dark blue- view of bathing beach at Villa. 3d., purple and orange-badge of

the colony.

6d., magenta and slate-badge of

the colony.

1sh., green and purple-view

Victoria Park, Kingstown.

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From the other side of the world the Fiji Islands sends us their first pictorial stamps. This series con- sists of eleven values, classified as follows:

d., green-sailing canoe.

1d., brown and blue-native village. 1 d., crimson-native canoe.

2d., brown and green-map of the

islands.

3d., gray-blue-canoe and arms-of

the colony.

5d., blue and red-sugar cane.

Just Received GRASS SEEDS

from

Sutton & Sons Ltd., Reading:

in tins of 1⁄2lb and I lb. at $4.00 per Ib.

W. Atlee Burpee Co. Philadelphia.

in packets of 1⁄2lb and 1 lb. at $3.50 per lb.

GRACA & CO.

Dealers of Garden Seeds, Postage Stamps and Philatelic Goods &c.

10 Wyndham Street. Established 1896, Hong Kong.

6d., gray-black

.islands.

map of the

1sh., black and yellow-native

spearing fish by torchlight. 2sh., orange and violet-Suva Har-

bour.

2sh. Od., green and brown-river

scene.

5sh., gray-green and purple-na-

tive home,

Each value carries a small madel- lion portrait of King George VI.

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* * NEW FRENCH PORTRAIT

R. Jean Baptiste Charcot is the

ly growing philatelic gallery of fam- ous Frenchmen. His portrait ap- pears on a semi-postal with a value of 65 plus 35 centimes. The stamp is printed in blue-green. The surtax is to be used for the benefit of French seamen.

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Dr. Charcot was a physician, scien- tist and explorer. In 1986 he equip- ped a ship, the Pourquoi-Pas (Why Not) for a research voyage in the polar regions. On September 26, 1986 the ship was battered to pieces on the coast of Iceland. The lives of the expedition's leader and 36 of his men were lost in the disaster.

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SAN MARINO HONOURS

LINCOLN

ABRAHAM LINCOLN is to be

portrayed on the 16-cent-de- nomination of America's new pre- sidential stamp series, but this will not be the only postage adhesive to honour him this year. The tiniest republic in the world-San Marino- has issued two souvenir sheets por- traying the martyred president.

On March 29, 1861, the government of San Marino made Lincoln an hon- ourary citizen of their state. In ap-

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Captain George E. T. Eyston's record breaking car Thunderbolt was on show on June 18 at Chiswick. He is shortly to take it to America to attempt to break the World's land speed record. Photo shows the no-- vel car being moved out of the shed. (Copyright. By Air Mail).

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scene of a medical Congress during, preciation, the executive wrote to the distant republic, "Although

May, and the event was commemor dominion is small your State is,ated by a set of four air mail stamps. nevertheless, one of the most honour- ed in all history." That phrase, in Italian and English, appears on the -new stamps.

A statue in honour of Lincoln was dedicated in San Marino on July 4 last, and it is to commemorate this event that the stamps, somewhat late, it is true, are issued..

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There are two sheets in the set, a 3-lire in dark blue and a 5-lire in red-orange. Each has a single large. stamp in the centre of the sheet bearing a portrait of Lincoln taken from the new statue, and the in- scriptions mentioned above.

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ODDS AND ENDS

HUNGARY has issued a special

souvenir in honour of the Eu- charistic Congress held in Budapest, The republic of Lebanon was the

The stamps in honour of the cen tenary of a famous Irish priest, Father Mathew, will be issued short- ly by the country of his birth. A portrait of Father Mathew, who was a famous preacher and temperance leader, will be featured on both values.

The 80th birthday of King Gustav V of Sweden was observed with an appropriate stamp issue-last month.

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STAMP TEASERS

1. Can you name two countries on whose stamps Hygeia, Goddess of Health, has been pictured? 2.. What stamp pictured the Dog

Rock?

3. What country besides Spain has paid philatelic tribute to Cervan- tes, the famous author of "Don Quixote'?

Do you know the stamp that pic- tures dredging for tin

Aram fa pletured on what stamp? Answers To Last Week's Quiz The Radium Hospital is pictured on a Norwegian stamp of 1981. The Boy Scout Insignia appears on several stamps issued by Rou mania in 1986.

3. In 1931 Newfoundland issued:' a ̈ ̈

stamp on which appears a picture of the first trans-Atlantic air- .:: mail plane..

4: Andre Marie Ampore, the French physicist for whom a unit of elec- trical current was named, is pic- tured on a 1986 stamp of France. The Asphalt Lake is in Trinidad, on whose stamps it has been plc- turd.

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