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WEEKLY NOTES FOR COLLECTORS.

ABOUT CANCELLATIONS.

WORRYING ABOUT ** CONDITION."

[Br W.S.]

At the present day quite à large proportion of collectors are obsessed by the condition" bugbear. The designs of their stamps must be mathematically centred as regards the perforations; the front and back of their specimens must be of

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it aalk-surfneed," would appear that the minds of the said authorities were put at reak, since its use has continued to this way. In the case of the stamps of Great Britain the lowest value printed on chalk-surfneed

LAMMERTS AUCTIONS:

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was the Three Halfpence, but Hong THE Undersigned, have received Kong went the whole way and had avory value printed on it as existing. stocks ran out. It was soon found, however, that the process was too costly for the low values, which re sulted in an early return to ordi- nary unsurfaced paper for the values up to ten conts.

The stamps found on the chalk- surfaced poper are, owing to th very smooth surface, much more clearly printed than on the ordinary paper, and the colours appear to the best advantage.

A Useful Test...

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THURSDAY, NOV. 6, COMMERCING AT 5,15 P.M."

AT. THEIL SALES ROOM, DUDDILL STREET,

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A COLLECTION OF 2,500 STAMPS

Comprising

Scarce and high valuce British

As the treated paper was brought stamp is to be admitted to their into

after 1190

many British albums it inust have the lightest Colonial stamps of the King Ed. possible postmark. There are, in ward issue had already been print- fact, some who will refuse house.od and issued on ordinary papers Colonials, Hong Kong, China, etc., it will be found that: znany exist on room to the finest known specimen the two classes of paper, hence the of a stamp because it does not necessity for classification which satisfy their standards of condition, cannot always be done on sight, par TERMS:-CA ON DELIVERY,

ticularly in the case of used stamps. even though, in that ideal con- The easiest way to find out whe- dition, the particular stamp does her a stamp is printed on ordinary unsurfaced, or on chalk-surfacod paper is to draw a piece of pure, smooth silver across one of the per- farations or a piece of the marginal paper adhering to the stamp: if a black line appears where the silver has touched the paper. it indicates a. chalk-surface. If placed in water the colours of a stamp printed on this paper, will generally run and the stamp be spoiled-honce its value from the point of view of the postal authorities in preventing fraudu lunt removal of cancellations.

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So, too, one bas every sympathy with the collector who endeavours to korp his album free from all that is unsightly; who discards very heavily, cancelled stamps, or those which are abnormally off-centre. There is, after all, an aesthetic side to the hobby, and the appearance of a collection, can be spoiled by lack of reasonable parc, but it must not be overlooked that obliterating chops used in the early days, were such as to leave no doubt that the stamps to which they had been ap plied had served their postal pur- pose.

Heavily Cancelled Rarities. Any who have seen the "Tapling" collection at the British Museum will have observed how heavily cancelled are many of the greatest rarities, particularly the Hawaiian "Missionaries," the designs of which are, almost entirely obscured by the bar cancellation. I under- stand that some of the Mauritius stamps in the collection of His Majesty the King are very heavily cancelled, but as such stamps are unobtainable in any other con- dition, it follows that they are desirable acquitions, and I cannot imagine even the most fastidious treating with scorn a collection of extremely heavy postinarka when found on the rare early issues of Mauritius,

STAMPS AND POLITICS A STRANGE STORY.

The famous postage stamp that lost the canal to Nicaragua," according to somewhat exaggerated political accounts of 1902, has a modern counterpart in a new air- mail series issued by the Nicara guan Government.

Appearance of the new stamps hearing the smoking cons of the volcano" Momotomi" attracted particular interest of persons familiar with the history of the Isthmain water way projects, be cause no less an authority than the French engineer Philippe Bunau- Varilla has described the similar stamp of earlier date as the postage-stamp thas determined the route of the canal."

In 1902 the Senate was having a great debate on the comparative merits of the Panama and Nicara gua routes. Proponents of the Panama project declared that vol- canoes

would and earthquakes jeopardize the safety of a Nicara- adherents denied the argumont, and prosented official declarations of the Nicaraguan authorities that there had not been a volcanic eruption in Nicaragua since 1835.

Ox VIEW From TUESDAY, the

4TH NOVEMBER, 1990,

LAMMERT. BROS.,

AUCTIONEERS.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received

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TO SELL DI

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ON

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7,

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LAMMEET BROS,

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WHITTA'S

gunn waterway. The Nicaraguan MOTOR AUCTIONS.

We wish to announce that owing to the fact of having disposed of most of A Disturbing Picture

our Stock of Used Cars during Last Bunau-Varilla, formidible pro Thursday's Sale coupled with Private pagandist for the Panama route, then exploited a Nicaraguan stamp,

Sales affected these Last Few Days, in current use, which showed the We now intend to hold Oor NEXT umoking volcano. Momolombo." AUCTION on THURSDAY, 27Tн”. He mounted the stamps on reparate NOVEMBER, at 5.15 P.M. pieces of paper, with explanation,

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and a title, An official proof of Sulesroom will be Open for Private volanic activity in Nicaragua A Sales usual up to: 7 FM. stamp was sent to each Senator.

Every Er jning.

NOTE.

We have a Limited Number of Cars

"It was the last cannon-shot of the battle," Bunau-Varilla wrote, in describing the incident. "It decided the destiny of what long controversy. The following day Senator Gallinger demanded of the on hand for Private Hire. The Importance of Condition. Senate if it was reasonable to 'un-

dertake that colossal tuskin E For further particulars Phone: In muntioning the two cases where country which carries a smoking HK. 26435 or Kowloon 56720, heavily cancelled stamps have been volcano as an emblem on its postage

considered worthy of inclusion in

instamps:

really first-class collections, it

should not be assumed that the

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passed

writer is urging or supporting the giving preference, to Panama over WHITTA'S MOTOR AUCTIONS procedure. It is supposed that Nicaragua, the Spooner Bill, there is no local collector who would by the majority of eight votes. claim to be a greater condition Panama had conquered. The adop CAMERON ROAD, KOWLOON

tion of the great French plan, to (NELT PENINSULA GARAGE) crnak, but it should be borne 10 mind that there

which was tied the destiny of the are instance. where, in philatelic study, the can-world, had made a first and epor- cellation plays a very important

part, and the craze for super-con dition is likely to rob the serious philatelist of much knowledge and consequent pleasure. This Just statement applies also to the per- forations Here again, faulty per forating, for obvious reasons, must needs find a place in the specialised collection of any country.

mous

op forward,"

The Now Serias..

The new Nicaraguan series of air- mail stamps has three doncinina. tious, 25-centavoy, 50 centavos, and

cordoba. The design shows the smoking cont, with two airplanes flying above it, Underneath is the word" Momotombo."

Taking stamp-collecting general- Although a Nicaraguan cani ly, condition is a factor which must survey is now in progress, there is not be disregarded. Tu disregard to posibility that the present condition will not only result in the issue of stamps would be politically formation of an unsatisfactory cal-exploited as was the earlier stamp. lection, but will lessen, if not ruin, of similar design. The present the collection as an investment. It Inter-Oceanio Canal Board has may be taken as a general precept that a stamp in fine condition at high price in a far better investinon than a stamp in poor condition at any, price.",

taken steps to forestall possible political attacks against the Nicara guan route based on alleged monaco from earthquake and volcano,

Complete data on earthquakes Fraudulent Cleaning.Off.

and volcanic eruptions as far back as records are available has been Although the postal authorities assembled, and authorities have said had for many years been nervous of informally that this record cam drzado chuingageradebymakamletalar patutsastus jus flip sarthe pulous fidividuals cleaning off the quakes are of sufficient intensity cancellations on stamps, it was not and frequenty to jeopardize the until 1005, that paper was introdue operation of the Nicaraguan canal ed which made it difficult, if not if quilt

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