The Caucasian., 1919-12-07
WSTAMPI$S, !,
An.E:()lT!HE EUROPE: |:
FessaY SssgeS Galore &, The Con.
aD'eDs Since Deser.s
BE! 1918.
MOST FOR the New STATES
9iftssn e4undrsd % the Number &Fs
Accounted So' BY ehs First Stampc
o. New Euoopean States Whose
Autonomy Was Guaranteed

Y Autonomy Was Guaranteed
XoNdOn.e-1hc eotat Numbee OF new
postage stamv ossucs since December,
1913. Is now approaching 1000. sf
these neasly $500 are accounted fes
| by che firso stamps OF she new Euro
Vean states whose autonomy was guas-
antsed ~ Che 0asis conference. 30
sanA, once represented in ehc stamp
| album by . single, label has yroducee
| since che asmiseicS move than 4Ot seFe
| av0te aNS @iSeinCe postage stamps.
! while the UkraiNe ganils second with
approximately t7s varieties % eithes
o provisional "s 0ermancns 'lsscris-
sion. 5ug"-S'avso an6 e'zecho SloYa-
kio nccouoo eoo something bike 90
specimens oacS ana the e.fstable see
| oitorg eS 8'oumo soy 90.
One @Sesagso Zoe ere semsinnS
os Hesweoee 3o aIso 80 soa'n0s. while the
sHorsuso .oeios 99sus Gag sscoracs Is
enao 90 eh.s Graeo~oaNcasian sepubsic
on sseorglo. comprising uis 20 che pres
eNo eoue eael@s only. Che highest
! stamp gssNing @record" hitherto
| achieved was ip ehe year 1914, when
0,2S6 @ew costage stamps were pro
0uce: 1hreugous the world, mainly due
% the change in she watermark of the
British colonial issues.
Vnifie0 Series for Serbs.
One important step toward finalits
in the philatelc affairs Of new Europe
is the issue of unified postage stamps
for the kingdom Of the Serbs, Croars
and Slovcnes, instead of the separate
issues for croatia, Slavona, Bosnia
and Serbia. They bear the likeness
of the veteran King Peter | as over.
lord of Greater Serbia and are in
scrihed in Both Latin and Cyrillic char
acters. Meanwhile from Agram (Iugo-
Slavias comes news that the Croatian
national postage stamps issued on lar
uary 16 this year have been Obsolete
since May 27 and that in the interim
the Slavonian types printed ut Lei
bach have been used by the CroatiaR
post office pending the appearance at
the new general series, which was to
have come into use on August l.
Czecho- SIovakia, having been admit
ted to the Universal Postal union, is
about to modify the colors of certain
of her current postage stamps in CON
formance with the requirements Of
that body. In future the five hellers
stamp will be printed in blue green
instead nf vcIfp3,y ho bon hnl
In yellow green instead of red, :he 10
heller in deep rcd instead of green the
% heller in violet instead of deep blue,
the so heller in deep blue instead of vi
olet and the 20 heller newspaper stamp
in blue instead of violet.
Monaco Has War Clarity Stamps:
Monaco has just put forth so,iie-
what belated set Of war charits
stamps intended, so the inscriptiea iY,-
forms us, to assist the orphelns Fran
caises de Ia guerre. A view of the bay
and rock Of Monte Carlo from the sea
constitutes the main feature of the lie
sign, inset with picture Of widow
and child, and each stamp is sold III
a premium upon It's postal value, which
goes to the French national fund. Az
usual, the printing Of the stamps has
been carried out by the French gov
ernment printing establishment in Par
Is, the designer and eneraver being
Messrs. Eurand & Jarraud.
Italy has issued new fifteen cen
tesimi stamp, printed in slate as be-
fore, but in the type Of five centesimi
and ten ccntesimi IN place of the MI
chetti design previously employed for
this value.
Presumably the instruction Issued
last month respecting the sliscontinu-
ance of British colonial war tax
stamps only applied to specific eases,
or else IL was delayed in transmission.
Al any vate. 4 New local and provis-
iOHaP printing of the Turks island one
penns wac ,aS stamp reached London
lass week, and having been set up in
type, is more than ordinarily
prolific OF varieties The overprint is
In two lines OF large and small Roman
with the word "War" widely
spaced.