The world's stamp{collecting championship will be decided in London in May when the Interna-~ tional Stamp Exhibition opens at the Royal Horticultural Hall. Hundreds of entries have been received from all over the world, especially from America. Many of the collections of single countries are valued at from £20,000 to £30,000 each, while one exhibitor's entries am-aunt to £100,000. The exhibition will be the first of its kind held since the War. The Junior Championship, for philatelists under 21, will also be contested for the first time since 1912, when Captain Victor Cazalet, then an Eton boy of 15, secured it. upon an oak was the signal for 9 religious ceremony, during which it was cut with much solemnity: and the doctor-priests prescribed ph: prepared from its leaves and berries as a panacea of all ills.
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