New Fighting French
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Stamps
Prom Our Own Correspondent NOUMEA, March 23.
ALTHOUGH sets amounting to hun dreds of thousands of New Cale donian stamps have been bought by collectors and souvenir-hunters in the United States forces, few have been able to obtain any of the issue of 18 months ago, supercharged with the words “France Libre”; and the day may come when these will be marked “rare” in the stamp catalogues. Of the 614,000 stamps which made up this issue, 500,000 were sent to the Comite National Francais at London and only 111,000 have been sold locally, the few remaining thousands being with drawn from circulation last November and destroyed. The issue was replaced by one printed in London with a cagou degign, by the well-known painter, Edmund Dulac.