NEW STAMP ISSUES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 70, 8 January 1947, Page 7

NEW STAMP ISSUES

OPPORTUNITIES FOR PHILATELISTS FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT HONOURED Honduras becomes the tenth foreign nation to honour the" late President Roosevelt by picturing him on its postage stamps, writes George A. Scott in the Christian Science Monitor. The Central American republic has just issued an eight centavos air-mail stamp showing a medallion portrait of Mr Roosevelt beside a truncated stone column. Two inscriptions appear on the stamp. One, beneath the stone column, translates “F. D. R.,” April 12, 1945. Honduras’ Homage to the Great Statesman, The other, appearing above the central design, reads: “Day. of Allied Victory over Japan.” The stamp is one of a set of eight new airmails. The designs of the other stamps picture the Honduran coat of arms and those of Spanish colonial provinces which make up Honduras.

Argentina, Greece, Haiti, Liberia and Nicaragua also have issued memorial stamps in honour of" Mr Roosevelt. Brazil, Columbia, Guatemala and Turkey pictured him on their stamps before his death.

Collectors of Roosevelt memorial issues, incidentally, may be interested to know that 10 plate varieties have been found in sheets of the Argentine stamp. Originally reported by the Journal of the Centro Filatelico de la Plata of. La Plata, Argentina, the varieties were checked by the Pan American Union’s Philatelic Section in Washington and found to be correct. They include incomplete letters, broken and retouched borders and joined letters. Most of them are readily visible to the unaided eye, according to the Pan American Union.