STAMP FORTUNES
REALISATIONS IN LONDON. COLLECTIONS FROM-EUROPE. Czechs have been sending valuable stamp collections to London in order to raise funds in case they should have to flee from their country. Many stamps have come also from Austria which before the anschluss, was the fourth most important stamp market of the world, and where some of the finest collections have been assembled in the past. One London firm of stamp auctioneers alone, Messrs H. R. Harmer, has received collections worth £lOO,OOO owing to the recent disturbances in Europe. “We had a few from Germany,” a representatives of the firm said recently, “some from Spain, many from Austria, and now we are beginning to get some from Czechoslovakia.
“Refugees have often managed to get away with their stamp collections as their only assets—and very valuable some of them have proved to be. “Some of course must have’ been smuggled over the frontiers. Others have been brought out legally, on payment of a flight tax amounting to between 25 and 30 per cent of the total value of the collection.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 November 1938, Page 4
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178STAMP FORTUNES Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 November 1938, Page 4
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