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COMING EVENTS CAST SHADOWS

WITH the ambitious stamp pro- gramme now being conducted by the American Post Office Department, one scarcely expects to hear of fur

philatelist, ther new issues. The however, is very close to the admin- istration's heart and he, at least, will The com- never be a forgotten man. memorative stamp schedule for this year will be augmented by two issues, and a third is definitely planned for the early days of 1939.

The announcement of a stamp to mark the centennial of the establish- ment of the Iowa territory is a com- plete surprise, for not even a rumour of this issue has been abroad.

The present state of Iowa was part of the Louisian Purchase. When, in 1812, Louisiana became a state, Iowa formed part of the Missouri Terri tory. Successively it was a portion of the territories of Michigan and Wisconsin and was organised as a separate territory in 1888. Iowa was admitted to the Union on December 28, 1846.

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THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY SUPPLEMENT, AUGUST 5, 1988.

POLAND'S MINIATURE SHEET.

THE STAMP COLLECTOR'S CORNER

By Mariel Nissen-

Another stamp we may expect to see this year is the New North-West Territory stamp. In 1987. a. com- memorative was issued for the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Or- dinance of 1787. This statute, adopt ed on July 13, 1787, was one of the most important legislative acts of American history. It provided a plan for the government of the terri tory, which was ceded to the United States by New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Virginia. This coun- try, located north-west of the Ohio River, became known as the North- West Territory. Settlement of the region began in 1788 and is to be. commemorated by a new stamp. Originally, the Post Office Depart- ment planned to use an overprinted form of last year's North-West Ter-

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ritory stamp for this year's obser- vance, but now an entirely new stamp is the order of the issue.

The third new stamp will appear in 1999 in honour of what will undoubt edly be the outstanding event of the year in tourist circles The New York World's Fair. There is a pos sibility that two denominations will be used in the issue, thus giving to the New York Fair all the philatelic honour accorded its Chicago prede-

.cessor.:

NETHERLAND'S CHARITY SET

4C NEDERLAND

BIJELACTA

CULTUREELE, EN SOCIALE

IN the past three years,

accordance with the procedure

the Netherlands issued a semi-postal set portraying prominent Dutch figures. The surtax on the stampa is employed for summer-time relief of a cultural and social nature.

The values, colours and subjects are: 1% plus 1% cent, gray-green, Marnixvan Sint Aldegonde (1540- 1598), a Flemish writer and promin- ent figure in the Reformation; 8 plus 3c., light green, Otto Gerhard Hel- dring (1804-1876), writer and human- itarian, 4 plus 2c., magenta; Maria Tesselschade (1594-1649) poetesa; 5 plus 8c., deep green, Rembrandt Har- mens van Rinj, best known to us sim- -ply-as Rembrandt, (1606-1669), pain- ter; 12% plus 3c., ultramarine, Hermann Boerhave (1668-1788), phy- sician.

The designs of the stamps are re- productions of paintings of the per- sons portrayed.

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A Alature sheet issued

MOST attractive picture is given

by Poland in honour of the Warsaw Philatelic Exhibition. The sheet con sists of two 25 groszy, green and two 55g. blue stamps. The illustration on each is an old fashioned mail conch, speeding on its way.

ROYAL PORTRAITS APPEAR

THE principal members of Britain's

Royal Family are the subjects of Newfoundland's new stamp issue which appeared on May 21, the first anniversary of H.M. the King George VI's coronation.

The portraits are austerely simple and have a decidedly old-fashioned look about them.

The King is pictured on the 2 cents, green; on the &c., rose red is a pic- ture of Queen Elizabeth; Princess Elizabeth is featured on the 4c., iight blue and the Queen Mother is shown on the 7c., dark blue.

RUMANIA'S KING PORTRAYED

FOR the portrait of King Carol

appearing on a new commemora- tive set, Rumania has used the same. profile type that is used for many of the King George stamps now being issued. The Balkan monarch, how- ever, does not give to a stamp design the dignity and charm that his Bri- tish cousin has.

These King Carol stamps were is sued in observance of the new Con- stitution of February 27, 1938. The set consists of three values, all in the same design, with the following values and colours: 3 lei, red; 6 lei, brown; 10 lei, light blue.

STAMP TEASERS

1. A Hausa Warrior imposingly

adorns what stamp?

2. A stamp set issued in honour of an exposition, pictures on eleven of its values various exhibition buildings of different countries. What country issued the set?

8. Luis de Gamoens is honoured on many stamps of his native land. For what is he famous and what is the country so honouring him?, 4. Where is Topsail Falls and on

what stamp do we see it?

5. Angels playing violins appear on

what stamp?

ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK'S QUIZ

1. A honey bear is shown on a stamp

issued by North Borneo in 1902.

2. Providence Island is in Monrovia Harbour, Liberia, and a stamp of that country, issued in 1914, gives a view of the island.

3. The emblems of drama, music, art and sport appear on an Italian adhesive of 1932 vintage.

4. Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey, French Marshal, has spent most of his military life in the organi- sation of French colonial rovern- ments. His most noted work was done in French Morocco and it is on stamps of that province that lhë fis pictured.

A reproduction of the Discus Thrower appears on a Colombian stamp of 1935.

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