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Post. Due, 1919-21 5h to 20k complete, perforated
Offices in Turkey, Postage Due, 1908
12, 2, 5, 10, 20pi

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The Month

By Kent B. Stiles

PINCH HITTING

During Mr. John M. Luff's European tour, this department, "The Month", usually written by Mr. Luff, will be conducted by the Associate Editor of the Journal. The absentee Editor has original sources of philatelic information which are not available to the Associate Editor, so that our readers may expect "The Month" to be less informative until Mr. Luff's return, which will be probably some time in August. -K. B. S.

NITED STATES: On May 1 the AUSTRIA: From Vienna comes infor

UN

final four denominations of the new series appeared, and their issuing was marked by several departures from the Postmaster General's originally nounced plans as to designs and colors.

an

Instead of Yosemite being pictured on

mation that a set of "charity stamps" is in prospect, with designs representative of the districts of Bregenz, Eisenstadt, Graz, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Linz and Vienna. Time for that philatelic "buyers' strike!"

the 20c, the design comprises the Golden CA

Gate and San Francisco Bay with a clipper ship standing out into the Pacific and with several other vesesls shown, from a painting by W. A. Coulter of Sausalito, Cal. The color was to have been "cigarette revenue stamp" blue, but crimson

was

'AMEROONS: France, which has a mandate over this pre-war German possession, has approved designs for a distinctive series. Native industries, particularly lumbering and rubber gathering, will be pictured. A set of postage dues also is being issued.

substituted. The stamp has the longer CHI

dimension horizontal. At post offices it was first placed on sale in San Francisco.

The 14c turns out to be indigo blue instead of the yellow green which was at first designated. Inasmuch as the 14c is the same size as the Ic green and 8c "bond olive," probably indigo blue was selected in order to avoid any possible confusion in similarity of colors. The design is the head of Hollowhorn Bear, noted Indian chief.

The 8c olive green-officially "bond olive" has a portrait of U. S. Grant, soldier and President. This stamp was placed

HINA: Changes are being made in the colors of some of the denominations. Under the new arrangement the 4c is issued in gray instead of scarlet; the 6c in red instead of gray; the 15c (reinstated after being out of use for many months) in dark blue instead of the brown in whic ́ it appeared in 1913-18; the $1 in chocolate and black instead of ochre and black; the $2 in sepia and black instead of dark blue and black; the $5 in dark gray-green and black instead of scarlet and black; the $10 in maroon and black instead of yellow green and black; and the $20 in blue and maroon instead of yellow and black.

on sale first at Grant's birthplace, Point DA

Pleasant, Ohio.

The 7c "not black" bears a portrait of the martyred President William McKinley and was first sold at McKinley's birthplace, Niles, Ohio.

The four stamps went on sale May I also at the Government's Philatelic Stamp Agency in Washington.

ANZIG: The design of the transverse oblong "charity stamps" of Danzig, recently chronicled in the Journal, is described by Stamp Collecting as follows:

"Full face portrait of white-bearded old man; silhouette of Danzig in background (Church of St. Mary to left; City Hall, etc., to right)."

These bits of paper were issued ostensibly to raise funds for native aged pensioners.

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GYPT: Issuing of the new series has been begun, with a portrait of King Fuad as the central design. Instead of being printed in London, as has heretofore been customary with Egypt's adhesives, the

for the 8s. Also, the 20s of 1922 is deep blue; this is the color given to the new 10s, so that the 20s is likely soon to appear in another color.

newcomers were turned out at the mint in MEMEL: Supplementing the “Klaipeda

Boulac.

The 5 milliemes brown is the

first value to appear.

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and surcharges

perman

Memel" ent (?) stamps which were chronicled in recent issues of the Journal, another batch of permanent (again “?”) adhesives has erupted frothily. Commenting of these newcomers in Stamp Collecting, Derek Ingram, the editor, moans:

"If the avalanche of new issues from the neighborhood of the Baltic does not soon moderate, we shall feel compelled to resign responsibility for this chronicle, for we would sooner do that than end our toiling days and nights in a lunatic asylum."

The latest "Klaipeda-Memel" labels, presumably instigated by the Lithuanian invaders with an eye to the inside of the collector's pocket, are in three types, as follows:

Design, Baltic Steamship: 40m olive, 50m brown, 80m green, 100m red. Design, Winged Anchor: 200m blue, 300m brown, 400m purple, 500m orange.

Design, Lighthouse: 800m blue, 1,000m mauve, 2,000m red, 3,000m green.

Another slew of surcharges also is in the yeast. We will permit Mr. John N. Luff to handle the dough when he gets back from Neurope.

IRI
definitive series has appeared the 1⁄2 NEWF

green.

JAPAN

[APAN: It will be recalled that in 1922, 8s and 20s values were issued with the central design comprising a view of Mount Fujiyama and sacred deer. At that time the information was printed that the stamps were of tentative character, subject to withdrawal if they did not win popular approval.

Evidently the Japanese people have endorsed this design, for additional denominations have now appeared-2s brown, IS orange, 11⁄2s pale blue 2S green, 3S rose, 4S scarlet, and IOS deep blue. Note that the 4s is in a color different from that of the 1922 stamp, which is green. The 8s of 1922 is in rose; the new 3s is in rose, whic would indicate selection of another color

́EWFOUNDLAND:

This country's

new definitive series is in process of issue and will be chronicled in due time. There are twelve values, all showing views in Newfoundland towns and cities except that on the 3c is a picture of the statue which Sir Edward Bowring presented to the city of St. John's and which was erected in Bowring Park some months ago.

AZERBAIJAN

Occupation Stamps Issued under Allied Occupation 1918

Perforated, Unused

201 to 213, 2k to 10k on 7k. 13 varieties.

Catalogue Price $60. Net Price $20.00

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20th Century Collection of 6490 Stamps

Mostly Used and in Good Condition

Catalogue Value of this Collection is $2250.00
Net Price $800.00

Mounted

The collection contains very few stamps later than 1920, also a number of complete sets: No United States, Denmark, Norway or Sweden. on the pages of our Number 10 Album.

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