Doubtless local philatelists will vend! with interest a remark in the "South China Morning Post" garding what is believed to be a defect in one of the present Hong-Kong issues, The "Post" says:
Collectors. specializing in. British goloninis or in Hongkong issuer may interested. to" know of tit detect in the current issue, one ect Tee consist. of A. sminll lean cut hrough the top Tine of the frame over the word Kong." While pos ably of very minor' importanes, it Worth collecting from the pol view of the conlimed, As alli the really raves generally firmly held collectors who have been wealthy enough to acquire them, and as the ato the market only when other event causes a collection to! Ihe disposed of, it is certainly often" terest for those not so well endowed with the world's goods to be able to acquire specimens even only: slightly out of the ordinars hardly likely, however, that such will ever become' valuable. Years ago many people went to an extraordin-airy amount of trouble to acquire sets of special stamps issued by the: Chinese Post Office, only to find that so many had been printed that, ultimately they looked like becoming, a drug on the market and may still 1 teat we now,
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