Show 2000 2 NEW STAMPS A E U U U rr I 1 N E uy R 0 PT postal issues galore on the continent since december 1918 TOT MOST FOR TIIE THE NEW STATES fifteen hundred of the number are accounted for by the first stamps of new european states whose autonomy y war as guaranteed london the total number oy new postage stamp issues since december 1918 is now approaching 2000 of these nearly 1500 are accounted tor for by the first tam stamps of the alie new european states chose autonomy was guaranteed by the paris conference poland once re represented present e in the stamp album by a single label has produced since the armistice more than separate and distinct postage stamps while the ukraine ranks with approximately varieties of either a provisional or permanent anent description jugo slavia and czecho slova a ala account for something like specimens each and the debatable territory of flume tor for 75 the average for the remaining Is berneen beaw bet een Neen 30 arid 50 stamps while the shortest serles seres thus far recorded is that of the republic of georgia Pe orgia comprising up to the present four values oni only the highest stamp issuing record hitherto achieved was in the yeat year 1014 1914 when 1280 new postage stamps were produced throughout gout out the world mainly due to the elladge ellange in the watermark of the british colonial loues unified series for serbs gerbs one important step toward finality in the philatelic affairs of new europe is the lesue issue of unified postage stamps for the kingdom of tile the serbs gerbs croats choats and slovenes venes instead of the separate issues for croatia slavonia Slav onla bosnia besnia and serbia they bear the likeness of the veteran king peter I 1 as overlord of greater serbia arid and are inscribed in both latin and cyrillic characters meanwhile Me awhile from agram comes news cows that the croatian national postage stamps issued on jan uary 10 this year have been obsolete since may 27 and that in the interim the Sla types printed tit at lil L il bach have leave been used by the croatian post allce pending the appearance of the new general series which was to have come into use on oil august 1 czecho having been admitted to tile the universal postal union la is abbatto about to modify the colors of certain of her current postage stamp in con firmance for mance with the requirements of that body in future the five hellers dellera stamp will be printed in blue green instead of yellow green the ten heller beller in yellow vellow green instead of red the 20 heller 1 in deep red instead of green the 25 heller in violet instead of deep blue the 50 heller in deep blue instead of violet and the 20 heller newspaper stamp in blue instead of violet monaco has war charty stamps monaco has just put forth a somewhat belated beet t of war charity stamps intended so the inscription informs us to assist the orph orpheline elins pran fran balses de la guerre A view of the bay and rock of monte carlo from the spa sea constitutes the main feature of the design inset with a picture of a widow and a child and each stamp is sold nt at a premium upon its postal value which goes to the french national fund As usual thoi tho printing of the stamps lias has been carried out by the french government printing estabel establishment in paris the designer and engraver being eurand barraud Jar raud italy has issued a new fifteen cen stamp printed in slate as tie fore but in the type of live five centes lm and ten tell in place of the ml ill chetti design previously employed for this value presumably the instruction last month respecting the discontinuance of british colonial war tax stamps only applied to specific caes or else it was delayed in trang transmission mis at tiny any rate a new local and pr provisional vi printing of the turks island one penny war tax stamp reached london last week and having been set up lip in movable type Is more than ordin ordinarily atIly prolific of varieties the overprint Is in two lines of large and small roman capitals with the word war widely spaced |