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More Tongan Stamp Errors
A Tongan dealer in May was offering overseas two 1/nancipation stamps with overprint inverted, for £2OO sterling :h. One of the stamps was on a first day cover.
' same dealer was also offering mint set of Tonga’s first official ail series, released four months ith a face value of less than £2 alian, at £l6O sterling. : dealer marked his price list, ict to your immediate accep otherwise prices raised without ;opy of the price list was given M in May. The list announced ; and prices of a number of s issued by Tonga in February. ; issues caused a fuss in the die world at the time, and philatelists complained that they ted the market had been cor- They also complained of the issue, and at the failure of the n Government to give what aid was sufficient notice of the (P/M, April, p. 27.) re were two issues in February >OO sets (face value 10/-) in the r series, with an overprint corn rating the centenary of emanci ; and Tonga’s first official air series (900 sets, face value /7). The overprinting in the r series was done, for the first by the Tongan Government r. hin a few days of the February i it was announced in London i sheet of 60 5/- stamps had
been received there with the over print inverted, and that the value of the sheet was about £lO,OOO sterling.
There was no report that the over print had also been inverted on some of the other stamps, but it now ap pears from the price list received by PIM that the error also applies to at least two of the 1/- stamps.
A set of the regular series over printed are offered for £5 sterling the set, and £lO if they are on a first day cover.
London and Sydney dealers in May were offering these sets for about £3, although undoubtedly the price will rise.
(See "Commentary", p. 21.)
Top left are Tonga's new Australian-trained police dogs, with their handlers, from left.
Constables Vivili, Fonua and Kotoa and Ser geant 'Akau'ola. The dogs will be seen at the Emancipation celebrations. At right, a Japanese TV team takes a look at the sights of Tonga from an odd angle.
Photos: Tulua Bros.