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WAR STAMPS

SOME FABULOUS PRICES. (Bv Fred. J. Melville, Editor of "The PostnKc Stamp," in the "Daily Mail."; Durimr the war stamps issued by our navies and armies in occupation ruse to fabulous prices on tho stamp market, and thev are still rising. A couple of British occupation stamps for Bagdad, sold at the pust oilice there for three annas (3d.) in tieptember, 1017, are worth to-day .L'lso. Two stamps issued by our troops in Togo at Bs. face value could not lie bought at X'alH) todav—there would be a food demand at that price, but there is no supply. Only two of each are known, and the two fortunate uosscssori (the King owns a specimen! of each) are not likjly to tell. Since the armistice a new period of remarkable stamp issues has begun— stamps that reilect the new political and general conditions leading up to and establishing peace conditions The New. Europe; 'or _ "Neurnpe," stamps, to use a word which I. coined, some months ago, and which lias been generally adopted to describe this-group of stamps, already include a number of rarities. Hero is an Austrian utamp of 10 kronen, (less than 2s. at the present rate of exchange) which was overprinted by the Italians at Triesls in November last. Its price to-day is .£150; while the similar 10 kronen stamp overprinted at Trent is worth more than double that amount. Of the latter only eleven authentic, copies arc known, and most, if not, all. of theso are now in the collections of high personages or of Italian museums.

The value of many "Neuropo" stamps has risen 100 to 1000, per cent, in six months. For example, the'- Ukrainians 'during their brief occupation of Stanislau. tho capital of .Galicia, surcharged the Austrian stamps they captured there. The complete set of seventeen stamps 1 bought for a little under JU7 seven .or eight weeks ago. cannot now be bought much under .1)100. .' .

Since last November the newly .independent Poland has issued over 101) varieties of stamps, some of which are already scarce. They are historic, scraps of paper, which show how the Poles are stamping out the llr.:i- and the Hapsburg, and only recently theyiicw regular issue of Poland came to' hand, ono of the denominations of which brings the portrait of Paderew-iki into our stamp albums. But! tho remarkable investment value in "Neurope" stamps is only, one phase of the interest in theso i:ew issues. _ A ca'sual stroll round the Stamp Exhibition now onen a! 110 Strand, shows how these stamps -have added enormously to the educational value of stamp collection. Here.the boy collector can learn and understand more of the peace settlement than front the Treaty itself. Here are the stamps designed by the famous Czech artist Alfonse Mucha for Czecho-Slovakia, which can be bought from Id. upwards. ' A striking design appears on the Lubliana issue for the -province .of Carniola, which is io be part of' South Slaviarit shows a,nude young giant breaking free from the fetters which have, oppressed him for generations. A lull set in this desiirn costs but 2s. Gd. at present. Then there is a series for Croatia, and another for Serbia] and all these will soon' be obsolete, for an issue is in preparation for use throughout the whole of South Slavia'. The now geography, in the absence of the new maps, is best learned from the stamp album. The boy is father to the man in knowledge of the whereabouts of Esthonia, Lithuania, tho Ukraine and Croatia. tiow many of mv readers, apart, from stamp enthusiasts, could toll offhand where is Cilicia where is the Republic of Georgia? The stamps of each of these countries are before mo as 1 write. ■ • ■ The instructional value of the stamp album has as yet been inimfficiently appreciated by our educational authorities, but, aiuonr 'tnG new methods coming into vomie since tho war I have been invited to work out a series of definite courses of instruction which ivill; shortly bring 'tie 6tami) album-prominently into the schools, and will, I trusv, lighten the monotonv of dull tenc'aing methods and prove of 801UO real practical service to education. "-'r

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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 1, 26 September 1919, Page 9

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WAR STAMPS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 1, 26 September 1919, Page 9

WAR STAMPS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 1, 26 September 1919, Page 9

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