. St. Nicholas [serial]. ew Issues thismonth. But here is an interesting stamp from Hun-gary. Hungarian stamps are a thorn in the flesh, apuzzle, to all new stamp-collectors. These soon learn,however, that the word Magyar appears only uponthe stamps of Hungary. Indeed, that word is a key tolocating many a specimen in ones album. Yet while we say that the wordMagyar identifies astamp as Hungarian,yet, curiously enough,this new stamp has notonly the word Mag-yar but the wordHungariae as is the first timewe have seen this wordon a the stamp is a pic-ture of the patron s
. St. Nicholas [serial]. ew Issues thismonth. But here is an interesting stamp from Hun-gary. Hungarian stamps are a thorn in the flesh, apuzzle, to all new stamp-collectors. These soon learn,however, that the word Magyar appears only uponthe stamps of Hungary. Indeed, that word is a key tolocating many a specimen in ones album. Yet while we say that the wordMagyar identifies astamp as Hungarian,yet, curiously enough,this new stamp has notonly the word Mag-yar but the wordHungariae as is the first timewe have seen this wordon a the stamp is a pic-ture of the patron saintof Hungary. We do notknow the name of thissaint, and should beglad if some of ourreaders would supply us with this bit of informa-tion. The stamp is printed in two colors — theframe, pale gray-green, the center, brown-red. Theface value, as will be seen in the illustration, is 100korona. This ordinarily would be nineteen dollars, butin the present condition of exchange is really less thanone dollar. OUR COMPETITION. This is the month in which we promised to report uponthe result of our competition. We must confess thatwe greatly enjoy these competitions—enjoy receivingthe replies, reading what each one has to say, and notingthe great interest displayed by our readers in mattersrelating to stamps. But after we have read all theletters, comes the difficult task of deciding which shallbe entitled to the different prizes which are are so many answers; they come from youngpeople of such varying ages. Although, in this in-stance, the title or subject is the famous Bulgarian can-non, none of the replies are at all alike. This, of course,makes it very interesting to read the letters, but addsto the difficulty of deciding which is the best of the letters, we believe, would prove as inter-esting to the readers of Stamp Page as they have beento its Editor, and we wish we had space to print themall. But as that is impossible, we have decided topublish only tw
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