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THE STAMP COLLECTOR'S CORNER

«By Muriel Nissens

REMINISCENT of America's Old

Faithful stamp in the National Parks Issue is the new postage paper. from Iceland. On a set of four of stamps appears pictures of one the world's famous natural fountains -the Great Geyser of Iceland. Although geysers exist in volcanic regions, the boiling springs of Iceland, New Zealand and Ameri- ca's Yellowstone Park are the most famous. The Yellowstone geyser group is the largest and most active in the world, but historical priority

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AUR

GEYSIR

ISLAND

many.

must be given to the Iceland springs, derived for the word "geyser" is from "geysir", the Icelandic word. meaning gusher. ·

The Iceland geysers are situated in the northern part of the island, where, within a circuit of about two miles are more than one hundred hot springs. Among these is the hottest spring in the world, its waters below the surface being fifty degrees above the boiling point. The Great Geyser, pictured on the new adhesives, is the most important of the group. Ita steaming waters are hurled about 150. feet into the air at intervals of about' six hours. Gyrla Geyser, second importance, was the first specimen of this phenomena to be observed and named by white-men.

Iceland is one of the most volcanic regions of the earth and the contrast and between the everlasting snow burning volcanos has caused it to be aptly named, "the land of ice and fire."

These extremes of the ele- ments have made Iceland a difficult place for living, but a land of great scenic beauty.

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There have been several pictorial stamps devoted to the scenery of the country, but the current issue is cer- tainly the most attractive of all. The

values and colours of these stamps are: 15 aur, purple; 20 aur, carmine; 35 aur, blue and 50 aur, dark green. HONOUR AMONG NATIONS

TWO additional nations have added

their contributions to the `grow- ing list of foreign stamps issued in honour of the American Constitution, bringing the current total of these sets to eleven.

From Salvador comes a set of two stamps which are the largest and possibly the most brilliant of the con- stitution commemoratives. Only the issues of Honduras and Ecuador are as colourful. The postage value is 8 centavos and the airmail 30 cen- tavos. The designs are identical save for the added embellishment of an aeroplane on the higher denomina- tion. Crossed flags of Salvador and the United States, in natural colours, are placed in the foreground, gether with a book representing the Constitution. The book is printed in magenta and yellow. Behind it is a flaming torch of Liberty. Directly behind the flags is a background of mountain peaks and forests; above them is a map of the United States, Central America and the West In- dies. The border colour of the lower value is gray-blue, and of the high value brown.)

to-

Spain has issued a similar com- memorative in the form of a minia-

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ture sheet with a single stamp. Here the state of Liberty occupies the cen- tre of the design against a back- ground formed of the two flags. The value of the stamp is one peseta.

NEWS FROM WASHINGTON THE one-half cent Benjamin Fran- THE

klin stamp issued on May 19 provided an unexpected change in colour for that value. Instead of the olive-brown which has been used for the smallest stamp denomination, orange was used. The stamp other- wise is identical in size, and design with the new one-cent George Wash- ington adhesive.

The same style, following the prize-winning design of Elaine Raw- linson, has been used throughout the 32 stamp issue. It is modified by a thin border line on all values from

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cassonne. The city of Carcassonne occupied. a strategic position in south-western France from the days of the Roman Empire to 1659, when boundary lines changed and it was no longer of frontier importance. Part of the towers date back to the days of Roman rule; the castle belongs to the 11th century while the outer cir- cuit was built during the reign of Louis IX (1260-1270).

The town is now the centre of an important wine trade.

STAMP TEASERS

1. What stamp shows a picture of

Robert Louis Stevenson's home? 2. Do you know who Bernardo O'Higgins was, and on what stamps he is portrayed?.

3. What stamps picture the Milk

Can Tower?

4. Where is Bunce Island?

Mr. L. E. Lammert of Football Club "B" following through. Others are S. Strange and E. S. Curtis of the Club and S. Farlow and H. Brown of the ~Police." ("Mail” photo).

ten cent to nineteen cent, and by a double border line on-denominations so twenty cent, to fifty dent inclusive. AY FROM LIECHTENSTEIN

THE pictorial stamp series of Liech-

tenstein being currently issued : has a now addition. It is a lfr:20 adhesive, printed in brown, and de- picts a soldier of medieval days play- ing a harp. A castle rises in the background.

MEDI

NEW STAMP FROM FRANCE: "EDIEVAL days are also served on a new adhesive which comes. from France. It bears a very im- posing picture of the walls of Car

5. Can you find a bull's head on a

stamp listinaADERA K ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK'S QUIZ -1. Hygeia, the Goddess of Health, has been pictured on a New Zoa- land stamp of 1932 and on a

Rumanian adhesive of the

· year.

Dog Rock is shown on Polish stamp.

1935

8. In 1921, Panama printed a stamp

picturing a statuo of Cervantes.

4. A tin dredger appears on a stamp

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