STAMP COLLECTION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 February 1942, Page 3

STAMP COLLECTION

MAY BE LARGEST IN DOMINION. OWNED BY EX-FEATHERSTON RESIDENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. A stamp collection that some Wellington philatelists think may be the largest, most interesting and most valuable in New Zealand has been left by Mr E. H. S. Jackson, who died at his residence, Hobson Street, Wellington, last Sunday. He was of an extremely retiring nature and apparently no other philatelist ever saw the whole of his collection. Few saw even a part of it, but he was known to have spent large sums on it. All his life Mr Jackson was interested in stamp collecting and when he retired it became his great hobby. He was a member of the Wellington Philatelic Society, but did not attend its meetings. His trustee is unable to make any statement yet as to the constitution of his collection. He did not specialise, but was a general collector. He collected coins also. Mr Jackson died suddenly at the age of 67. Till the Great War he farmed a property in the Featherston district which his parents had occupied before him. During the war part of it was used by the Army. About 20 years ago he sold the land and retired. Since then he had lived with his unmarried sister in the Hobson Street house. Mr Jackson was a bachelor and his nearest surviving relative is his sister.