STAMPS FOR U.S.A.
WORTH THEIR WEIGHT IN GOLD A unique collection of British Guiana stamps, conservatively .valued, at £5000, has been flown by Clipper to New York for dispersal. It is a Gold Medal collection belonging to the well known English stamp collector Mr W. Ji. Webster. He is selling it to get dollars for the British Treasury. Each of the stamps has a ship on it under full sail, a reminder of the part British Guiana is playing to-day in the Battle of the Atlantic. And the motto of the Colony is also appropriate to the transaction: "We give and we seek in return." Just before the Webster collection was flown across the Atlantic a collection of West Tndies and North American stamps, begun at the age of 70 by Mr Martin-Hurst, went by boat to the New York auction rooms where it is expected to fetch at least £3000.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 199, 5 January 1942, Page 6
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151STAMPS FOR U.S.A. Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 199, 5 January 1942, Page 6
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