4 APRIL 1931, Page 38

Recognizing the King's abiding interest in the stamps of his

Empire, of which he owns the most valuable and compre- hensive collection extant, the Government of the Union of South Africa has recently prepared for His Majesty's accept- ance an elaborate album containing a complete set of the new pictorial postage stamps for the mandated territory of South-West Africa, mounted on sunk leaves and including in addition to the stamps as issued, in mint marginal blocks

of four, the original engraver's proofs of one of the most attractive series of postal vignettes in circulation in the British Dominions to-day.

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