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A REPRES'ENTATIVESOection of overprinted commemorative and definitive British
stamps, Including tfien004 "sea -horses" stamp and one of the last overprinted stamps of
the present reign.
Overprinted British stamps
puzzle newcomers to philately
Newcomers to philately are
sometimes puzzled by examples
of British stamps overprinted
with the names of other .coun,
tries. The most puzzling of all,
however, are British stamps, of
the present reign surcharged
with demoninations in Indian
currency, without any country.
name for further identification.
The practice of using ii;•.-itish
stamps in other parts of the world
is an old one, dating back to:the
time- when Britain's Post Office •
operated the postal services in
• many colonies, protectorates and
even foreign countries. At first;
ordinary British stamps were
• used, and these can only be dis-• .
' tinguished from those used. in
Britain by their postmarks. After
the foundation' of the Universal
Postal Union the British post of
-
flees in foreign 'countries grad,
ualjy closed down and there was
no further use for British stamps,.
overprinted or otherwise
A notable exception was Tur-
key which allowed many inajor.
European powers to maint4M\
their own post 'offices in v ridits
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War. Britain, among others, used
her ordinary stamps without an -
overprint, and subsequently in-
troduced stamps specially over-
printed with the word "Le-
vant"—a general term to de-
scribe the coastal areas of Tur-
key—and with values_ surcharged
in Turkish' paras ,and piastres.
British statnps thus overprinted
were used in Smyrna, Constanti-
nople, Beirut and other cities
from 1885 till 1914.
By the beginning of this cen-
tury the European powers were
• showing interest in Motocco. In
• 1912 the French and Spanish di-
• vided the country int d 'protected
zones', but 'many years earlier
commercial interests led Britain,
• Spain and France to use over-
printed stamps.
Originally the British ,post of-
fices in Morocco used the stamps
of Gibraltar suitably overprinted,
but in 1907 control of these offices
was transferred to London and
British stamps overprinted Mo-
"'roCco Agencies were then ern-
' ployed. Four different series
were used.'
1°,11- rata , tea Vanti pokral
9radbnciesin the Persian Gulf area
'antfused Indian stamps with dis-
tinctive overprints. After 1947,
'when India and Pakistan became
- 'dominions, the mantle of the
postalservices fell on the British
Pest Officeand froth 1948 on*ard
t ritish stamps were used in Bah-
` rain, Kuwait and Muscat. The
stamps used in Bahrain and Ku-
wait were overprinted with the.
names of these sheikhdoms, but
those used in Muscat were mere-
ly surcharged in Indian, currency.
British stamps have also been
, overprinted for use in territory
which has come under British
control, usually in times of war or
political upheaval. The earliest
example of British stamps over-
printed occurred in 1880 when the
cnntemporary low values were
loverprinted • 'Cyprus, " following
Turkey s cession of that island to
Britain in 1878. A distinctive ser-
ies was adopted in 1881.
British stamps overprinted
M.E.F. and E.A.F. were used by
the Middle East Forces and, East
African Forces in North Africa,
the Aegean Islands and Eritrea
between 1942 and 1948. Later,
stamps -• overprinted BMA
(British Military Administra-
tion) and the name of territory
were used in Eritrea, Somalia
and Tripolitania. In 1950, when
the Army handed over 'to a civil
administration, the letter M was
dropped from the overprint. Brit-
ish stamps surcharged in pias-
tres were used in Turkey in 1921
during the British occupation af-
ter the First World War.
• On several occasions Britain
hasitipplied overprinted stamps
to Aa, country. The, Brits.East
AflitteOinpank "(Xenya Yand the
Oil Rivers Protectorate (Ni-
geria) used overprinted British
ztamps in the 1890's, pending the,
introduction of their own stamps.
British Bechuanaland (now part
of South Africa) used British
overprinted stamps from 1887 till
1897 while Bechaualand Protec-
torate (now Botswana) used
similar stamps from 1888 till 1932.
The Irish Free State (Eire)
used overprinted British stamps
from 1922 till' 1937, a compara-
tively long period for an inde-
pendent country to use such •
makeshifts.
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Mr. and Mrs. Cecil
Judy of Orillla were_w
guests with Mr. awl Mrs. PO
Ridley.
Mrs. Ernie P'Arcey was a
patient in Listowel Memorial
Hospital last week following sur-
gery.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Schumacher
and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Miller
visited Friday evening with Mr,
and Mrs. Ernie Jonas at Bresla,u.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Moore
visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
Hugh Frew in Preston. Mrs.
Moore remained for a few days.
Weekend guests with Mr. And
Mrs. Lorne Siefert were Mr. and
Mrs. Bill Groff of Port Rigor*.
Mri. PhylIis Bolander, Harold
Ridley and Earl Ridley were in
Gtielph Friday attending the
funeral of their brother-in-law,
Eric Ward.
Mrs. Anson Demerling is some-
what improved having undergone
surgery last week in St. Joseph's
Hospital, Guelph.
Allen Cooper has returned to
his home in Harbour, Abaso
Is-
land. He was a guest at the
Johnston-Poliskuk wedding in
London and visited his father at
the hospital there and his home in
Fordwich for a few days. His lit-
tle daughter Laurie was with him
and saw snow for the,first time.
The sympathy of the com-
munity goes to Mr. and Mrs. Ger-
ald Martin in the death of the
latter's mother, Mrs. Loretta
Pettiplace last week.
Mr. and Mrs. D� n Ruttan ads‘f
three children of London were
visitors over the weekend with
Mr. and Mrs. Russel Ruttan and
with Mrs. Ruttan's parents in
Listowel. Mr. and Mrs. Holger
Feldskov of Georgetown were
also Saturday visitors at the
and
Slides shwa •
at thaakefferiag 0
FORDWICH — The Spring
thankoffering service of the
Fordwich United Church Women
was held on Thursday evening
with guests from Clifford, Gqrrie,
Kurtzville and Trinity Anglican
Churches. '
The Worship service was con-
vened by Mrs. Wray Cooper,
assisted by Mrs. Mel Taylor and
Mrs. Crosby Sotheran on the
theme "Go Tell". The worship
centre was bright with spring
• flowers, the cross and the Rpen
Bible. The service was opefiell by
• Mrs. Jack Wilson who sang a
solo, "Jesus Stands Among Us".
The guest speaker was Miss
Elizabeth Facey of Stratford,. a
retired deaconness who had
taken a conducted tour of Africa
arranged by The Observer. Miss
Facey showed slides of the coun-
tries visited as well as giving a
very interesting commentary.
She was introduced by Mrs. Har-
old Pollock' of Stratford and
thanked by Mrs. Jack Wilson. •
At the close of the service., the
ladies enjoyed a social hour in -the
Sunday School rooms.
same i.
m. and Ifni Wean Minatan
were visitors m 'Toronto One day
lest week,
Mrs, Oliver Prges 01:140thspet
visied Saturday with 110
Parents, Mr. and Ms; Norman
Harding.
Mrs. Elate Strong and Ural
Emerson Ferguson attended' a
meeting in Godetich last wt* to
make plans for tbe ACW a -
to be held in Exeter.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold arsons,
Mr. and Mrs. Les Gauthier and
family spent the weekend with
relatives in Toronto,.
Jim Hadley spent a few day4'
last, week in Toronto'.
Mrs. Russel Ruttan and Mi'ir
John Grubb spent Tuesday in
London.
Purse of money
fir newlyweds
FORDWICH— A presentation
and dance were held Friday.night •
in the communityhall in honOr-of
Mr. and Mrs. Holger FeldSknv
(Marian Ruttan) who were re-
cently married.
Mrs. Jack Mann read the ad-
dress. and Glenn Johnston pre-
sented the young couple with a
purse of money. Holger and
Marian expressed their thanks,
Music for dancing was supplied
by the Fordwich Ramblers,
Wroxeter
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Hart;
Oshawa, spent the weekend, re-
cently with Mrs. William Hart
and also visited Mrs. Edward
Newton, Wingham.
Miss Susan .Gibson, Toronto,
spent the weekend here and her
mother, Mrs. Edward Gibson
who has been visiting her for a
few weeks, has, returned home,
Miss Anne Douglas, Ottawa,
visited at the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie
Douglas.
Mrs. A. Weaning has returned
home after visiting friends and
relatives for the past few weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Smith,
Ripley, visited at the home of her
brother, Mr. and Mrs. Dalton
Dickison on Sunday.
Mr. and 'Mrs. Ross Toman
spent Sunday with the latter's.
sister, Mrs. Ivan Sararas-,Alew
Dundee.
DREAMLAND DOLLS •
FORDWIICH The fourth
meeting of the 4-H unit on Weep- •
wear was held at the 'home of
Mrs. Ron Livermore. Roll call
was "How I plan to trim my
sleepwear".
Mrs. Carl D'Arcey showed the
girls how to make the casing for
elastic., and bias binding. Mrs.
Livermore showed , how to cut
bias strips. The group work was
trimming the lower edge of a gar-
ment with eyelet or lace.
Cantor's staff from Limoges- inexhibition
some of the sumptuous objects rian in embossed silver, is being
coming from France, England, loaned by the Treasury of Tours
Belgium, Germany, the United Cathedral.
States and Canada. , ' The Reliquary of the Holy
Blood of Christ, which Philippe
IV of France gave to Boulogne
Cathedral at the time of the wed-
ding of his daughter, Isabella of
France to Edward II of England
in 1308, is loaned by the Church of
Saint -Francois -de -Sales, Boul-
ogne -sur -Mer;: the gold, silver -
gilt and enamelled reliquary,
measuring only. three inches in
• A bejewelled 12 -inch ceremoni-
al Cantor's Staff from Limoges
Cathedral from the Walters Art
Gallery, Baltimore, leads the
procession of medieval Works of
art into the National Gallery of
Canada, Ottawa, for the exhibi-
tion "Art and the Courts: France
and England from 1259 to 1328,"
on view from April 28 to July 2.
An object of considerable
splendour, with gems and silver
filigree decorating the copper
gilt, this mid -thirteenth century
staff was used by the cantor in
conducting sung responses in one
of the great cathedrals of the
• Middle Ages at Limoges. A cen-
tury earlier, in this cathedral,
Richard the Lion -Heart had be-
come Duke of Aquitaine through
a symbolic marriage with Saint
Valerie by placing her ring on his
finger. In this' cantor's staff,
which is to be part of the exhibi-
tion, Saint Valerie, an early
Christian martyr of Aquitaine, is
shown bringing her head to St.
Martial who stands, as the first
bishop of Limoges, before the Ca-
thedral altar. Above them the
protector of Limoges, St. Mich-
ael, stands protectively over the
dragon he had chivalrously slain.
As an object in which religious
and courtly virtues are decora-
tively combined, the cantor's
staff seems appropriate as the
first of the 105 treasures from the
13th and 14th centuries to arrive
at the National Gallery of Can -
ad, Ottawa, during the next few
weeks.
Among the works which will
follow for this exhibition, which
opens on April 27 are gold and sil-
ver reliquaries and chalices;
richly illuminated manuscripts;
enamel caskets; embroidered al-
tar cloths, bishops' copes and
alms purses; stained glass win-
dows; ivory chesspieces, mirror
backs and writing tablets; ala-
baster, marble and wood sculp-
tures and ceramics. These are '
0—o7-0
Curators from France, bring-
ing 30 works of art 'from French
museums, libraries, cathedrals
and churches to the National Gal-
lery for installation, will be the
first to arrive in early April.
Among these objects are the gut-
tering Reliquary of the Holy
Cross of Floreffe (after 1254), of
silver and,,copper-gilt, set with
precious 'tons, and a fragment
of an ivory altarpiece The Arrest
of ' Christ (early 14th century)
-from the Louvre Museum, Paris;
the Reliquary Crown from the
Abbey of the Paraclet (early 14th
century), with gems and translu-
cent enamels mounted in ver-
meil, from the Treasury of
Amiens Cathedral; the -small sil-
ver -gilt Reliquary front' the
Sainte -Chapelle (1261), in the
form of a church, and two golden
leopards embroidered in gold and
silk thread_on red velvet Frag-
ment of Heraldic Embroidery
(1325-30); an ivory Mirror -Back
with a ,Royal Family (c. 1320),
and two ivory diptychs (late 14th
century) from the ',Cluny Mu-
seum. Paris.
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The mercury -gilded copper
Crosier of Robert de Courtenay,
Bishop of Orleans, which was dis-
covered lying across the Bishop's
body in excavations in 1937, is be-
ing borrowed from the Treasury
of Orleans Cathedral, and twelve
of a series of glowing stained
glass window panels of Scenes
from the Lives of St. Edward and
St. Louis (1285-1307): have been
specially removed for the exhibi-
tion from the Lady Chapel of the
Abbey of the Trinity, Fecamp.
Buried at the beginning of the
French Revolution (1789), and
discovered in a field in 1837, the
Reliquary: The Head of St. Ad-
• diameter, and containing a piece
of red oriental -silk ,stained with
brood, was supposed to have been
sent, according to tradition, from
Jerusalem in 1101, by the com-
mander-in-chief of the First Cru-
sadeGodfrey Bouillon, to his
home. town of I3oulogne. It is the
only reliquary of Christ's blood.
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These are only a few of the
medieval works which will be on
exhibition in the gallery during
the period April 28 to July 2.
Collection :Walters Art
Baltimore, U.S.A.
Gallery,
• Cantor's Staff from Limoges Cathedral Le'ads Art
Treasures to Medieval Exhibition at the National
Gallery of Canada, Ottawa