CROATIAN STAMPS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 September 1924, Page 16

CROATIAN STAMPS.

NEW ISSUES OBTAINED IN

LONDON

The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes has obtained its newest stamps from London, and they prove to be a handsome series printed from jntaglio plates (writes Fred J. Melville in the Daily Telegraph). In general design the lower values follow the previous American-printed issiie in showing a profile of King Alexander to the • left on an oval medallion, but the head .is much larger. and allows better scope to the engraver to present a good portrait. In the new pattern, being taken entirely from Serbian motifs, instead of the conventional ornamentation of the earlier issue. It was originally intended that the entire series should be m this one design, but among the essays submitted by the printers was one which, in place of the oval medallion, has the profile in a. square panel, which shows up the portrait to still better advantage. As this was so pleasing a result the Serbian authorities decided to use it for-four of the denominations.

The inscriptions are in .Cvrillic ehar-a-'-ters at the top and in Roman letot? i at •bottom, and the form Kiahevma” (kingdom) is adopted, tliroughout, in place of the form ino^ a i - ev ' stvo ’”, whkh appeared on the p , ISSUG ’ although it was altered tor the supplementary values ordered L’om America in 1923 Mr Y M Yovanovitch the Serbian journalist; tells _me the words have the same meaning; the form Kraljevsto, he says, is older and less used, having even a rmfrf f° nci . , in it. because of its medieval origin; Kralievina is the modern and less romantic form. 9 o* •w l)py stamps Ordered was 230 millions, distributed over the folHon ln "9n dsnomi, i i ti( ? lls : ~ oval niedaldi'rJ 0 pa r S o bl , ack ’ 50 paras brown, d nai red, 2 dinars dark green, 3 dinars blue, 5 dinars light brown: • quare panel—lo dinars violet, 15 dinare sage-green, 2 0 c ]i nars ovai e 30 dinars light green. ?