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Show mM? COLLECTOR . KEEN OBSERVER r ' Necessarily Takes a Lively Interest In-terest in International Politics. DESTINIES OF NATIONS jj BECOME HIS STUDY j H s War ( loads Closely Watched for Effect on the Stamp Trade. tj, WASHINGTON p ," jan k-X dim ot H- people In thi rnuntry. or any other, for that matte-, nr.- t. iti-r lnf..rrrer 01 niOTC kacnly l interest.) m into mHtlnnii) politic than phlla-MB phlla-MB tfllats or stamp collr-ctrir to uc thr common M trm The half-million lawyer .1ortor., clargy-i clargy-i , . men. r.uclnfsH nun railroad mm. BtUdenta I "mtn of culture nn1 n flnemcnt anil boyg Hjvi glrla c'.mpoflnif thi. groat Army of ntamp col- I MftJ) l.rtrr, in the I'n:t.-I Stataa know what la go- Ua, lne n ln w"rM A political r)mnB oflrn- Uines meann a chanr" In the MimpH liaad. ami (Dta collrtorn ,irr- n tt,.. qui lvo for new things In postage Htampi. j r(i Eye Out for Changes. Th-ri there uf upeoulMnrs In philately m.f veil is In rcul '-lute or rnllrond wruiltles There j-pcrulntnrs v. ho an- u i.lenvv nke, ; . . r, men--an1 there hit not a few of the fair ' d among them-keep their eyea on the Indkator They know which ni.v the vUml if blowing S and they take advantage of ever; straw itreW "r o'opii. h. r iiir. wHr rinud between a! Gieat llrltaln and the uth African repuhllr, MM a; under ' ni Puiil, linmrd up on the horlron. fui no In i per than .1 i an t hand fo stamp COl-rBf COl-rBf JS&'r 9ul,Ml' bought up everything In the t W "I Tiqtm.iiI "Uimpn offered for sale "r v ' urn ii . iill.i '.mi.. me iirM, and JOB Mwtn-s not difficult to forecast who would win Ubvlouely, tvhrn . rc.u Hrltaln had conquored the Boerii lh( :ett-i would come under the Brttlnh domination and the South African gfcijS Iiinim .M.uld go out of hualneaa. That u lUld ""J make n scramble for th alarupt of that coun-' coun-' (Jjm trr nj), ,, .,i.s u.iuld sro up I" leap and JLf Hftke Money Out of Transvaal. tKf all that hapre'iK-d Just aa the long-Hff long-Hff heajled rcdlectors figured There waa a rush 9K for Trnnwvnul .stamp and prlcea jumped from "P. ' per , -ril Th. earl;. hli fit gol the Hlgi lamps in tin low rirlcei and later sold them to collector lew ifi al handsome pro04 Th moment the death of cjuecn 'lcir.ra ZB 'n anrx.unii d the wis.. IMInteii.-tx bought up 3S " ,n atatnpe of the Hntish colonlea having (TfJl ib' ' ' i e i ' h hid." knowing that aa n a fVlward became King n new serlea of stampa "W ,or '"'reat Britain and all the colonies would ;ejH b laaiiivil aa aOOtl as designs could be made B and they made n hand" Tin profit Occasionally Get Left. IHB Occaalonalljr, however the speruiators get S left. Jun a tin- long id- operators on the sliyrk exchange get trlminod Fr Instance MK threo rears nn ubn Hie United Slate b-par knbX nejroMatl in. with I;-nmark for th purchase jlV of ,no r",nl"h Weet Indlea, located right at ' ur "'Utheaiit do-inxaj II) T'hllateii' ipecu- lators, foreseeing the nd of Danish IVi-i In PtW dlan stamps, rushed In and l-iugbt up every mB thing in siifiit paying a-l eilft )iri--H roi tamp DUI lh.- deal fell through, the ad kj M win..' hi pii. ti n as noi -uinlri'' 1 .ind thi-, thi-, ; ulatoi bid l.ngi- ujanlltlee of atamf's 'n NBa hand. While the did not, probably I oat a'. rk. in in. v tin i lull d to make the l'O or BO Dl cent nntb Ipateii Present Game Interesting. Never before was th ptm" of International (09 li' or- Inlr-restlng than at the piesrnt ml moment No feature or phac of It Is lost l i -1 1 the wide awake stamp collector He HP) nu ii-' iti. limp and read tb- n- spapera and jnakif deductlona Thi probable philatelic slg-nlflrant'.' slg-nlflrant'.' of every move on the International i b' .Wer-b'sii d l null h' d rind w-lghe-1 When thi- liirmrin Bmparor took his stand MO '" lh'' SI r" ' " summer th phil- uteiifts perked up and focused their - ap.ng Ijtt the M-dlli-rranean There were Indications of lurtiiir I. in , oi hi aaalmllatlon," which had jHf -a Olntlnct philatelic t-..iii,fc- Possibilities in Sweden Th" dlaaolUtlon o( the Scandinavian union. fSM. whleh was i ..mplet.-d lust month by the triumphal entra.no into Chr.lsllaiila of prince gn i hirloH of l.i. nmark as thu nm King of Nor- v ;n iw an event of great philatelic u well .s political In-portanov There are gTeat poa-fUm poa-fUm elbllltlei- In the .pllttlng Up of a Lati n fmin a postal itandpolnl in the caso of Norway tflat and Sweden It means that an entln- new Bf aeries of stamps, whollv dlMlmllOr In ! -Utii FW will b- brought out f-r N'.iw;. Th peopl ) ot Sw'li-n naturally aotiH'what provoked and acre over th drawing off of Norway, will d-iCWf d-iCWf Kli. -t low s-rl-a of stamps Whlla t ho cur-,tk cur-,tk i. hi Htuinps jr.- dlatlnctl Swedish. the win b( aaaootatad with th.- union With Norway and Ifl currj' slightly unpleaaiani auggeatlon Un-. Un-. dou t.-1 . 1 ly a n. vv eerie for Swt-dcn will be t pr pared .vlii.ln a fi-w monthe. ill! Norway's First Chance. BT Alreadv work Is progressing upon th nw flM at niiips foi- Norway, which Will beat th Ilk- -nekt, of ICIng Haakon VII It must he re-jjetl re-jjetl miWnl'i.-l that lliii I- the drat time since ' V-MV- I'liinp- wire Irr.miid thai Norway lts p h i .i King of her own Heretoforo th . tii" Nof.'ri' hn- lilofly depicted the atrna '.f the country or a trumf t, known aa If )f lb ' --"ll rn u It Is reported In phllalel- circles that 1h-re iVB will als . be ape- lal coronation" stanif.a. hii-h i hull i.rr the llkenoe of Queen Maud and poselbly the hahy Crown Trlnee, Olnf. aa jflV well a.- King Haakon n Thea latter plamp Mil t..- f..i tb' purpose of franking mall dur-Ui dur-Ui ing it"- I' ll, d ..f ii" coronation ceramonlea mL t ut thoj win bo available tor postal purpoao m 1 nnltely. The stamps win undoubh tly b mW printed In two colors and brilliant In dcclgn ( n" 1 ' lorl'is- Coronation Stamps in Demand. The efff-cl of all this la not only to create BB a desire on thi lrt of all tamp . oil" ton- foi U tb- in w - .conation attunpa. as wi-ll as thu regular reg-ular pernuinent ni-w series, but It Increasea the d nuti'i f"i- Norwegian stamp of prevloui j II--IO-: I 'r. I lutellsta lire moved by p. pillar Im-sf Im-sf piil-.s. WTill not niglertlng nitentlon to . ratf I 'h'T . .. uiitw s i he gaa ol collector Is ai-1 ai-1 ' way tlxi-d upon the Ihcutir of activity, and w hlh Norway and Sw eden are under consld-trillion consld-trillion "11. tors will endeavor to complete ' their aets of the stamps of theso countries Developments in Russia. 5 But It Is to Russia that the philatelist Is poking for unlimited postal developments. Formerly Finland ieuod Ha own stamps With ajf the at - .rot I ti d 'be . i.untrv bj Russia th ami", of ih.. i .-j.r w m substituted and ba . ln- be. n ure. i u Hh the sevaranca of reta tlona Klnland will SSUmS the laSUC Of It "n w P hi.- siunpi Tlie same my be aald of VrJ Polar,'!, althoiigli Ihll country never had bui ps . rn- postagi -lamp and i hot was In uee but a 3S short time inb-r provlnoes are breaking froni 'In- parent power and when the oioke r. ii rbsred a v. a v and rosmos succeed . b.o '. ih..' ii'iiv and probaldv vlll be half Oa dOSM small nations. each of which will evtaMUh Its own pos'nl system and Issue (j , i (, . n 1 l .... n no OUIll Makeshift Stamps Valuable ' During u II the confusion Incident to Ihls rvV0Ut0PJUy period there will undoubtedly. ho many provisional stamps used stamps u- ,f, up In I.--il printing "ili'it an I piloted and 1 gumined bj liand i i t Immedlati need In fPB th- absence of regular poatagi damps This . ., ti.e th. during th viar between Gn t B Hrltaln and the Boer n the Britlall ld .ii n il .... hi the Boera' aide th regulai as. iiiimpa become exhausted and other stamps P' w ere o ' Tpi 1 1 . 1 . I or inul.-sblfl stamps printed Lto moet the emergency These stamps an- u-tr.mrlv u-tr.mrlv rare and sell at high prices These provisional or emergency stamps are the weeklies Of many philatelists slid when the number issued U limited fabub us pru i s nr. paid bi wealthy ...Ibitors. Eyes on tho Netherlands Phlgtlst hav e their v . on the Netherlands Nether-lands also owing to the f , I. i that Queen Willielmlna Is childless and there is no heir to Die throne there I tmk that the Queen 13 ,, r 'dlrnto and n republic be ostobllshcd Obvloua- Bfl B ''- Sii-' h"H Philatelic - sib Ml en 7i.. i" n.. ' w j i fs uf .1. . I . 1 In Pajiamu . Hull I. Santo L- 1 I III t tb" I'.alkan slat.-a and In Austria- f if?V'sr , In fact, ib at splinr.. of world- I p"llt)bs Is iilbd with clouds tluit uri algnld- u I ci, ut ii, 'i liii. Testing to stamp colh-ctors aa T n. II in t . Hie publl. ucin iull alOiouKh for L ' " ' vvl'J.-lj dlfl'-nnt. |