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Stamp collecting

Next January the British Post
Office will begin is , 1973
programme of special issues
with three stamps to mark
Britain's expected accession to
the European Economic
Community. This provides an
opporunity to examine how
stamps have played a part in
relationships between Britain
and France, both in times of
war and peace,

The French connection is
surprisingly well illustrated by
stamps. A French stamp of
1942, for example, portraying
Jean de Vienne, the L4th cen-
tury Admiral of France, is a
reminder that it was he who
negotiated the Auld Alliance
between France and Scotland
which virtually extended the
privileges of French citizenship
to the Scots at a time when the
jatter were particularly hard
pressed by the English. ;

Four years earlier
France had issued a 1.75 francs
stamp to celebrate the state
visit of King George VI and
Queen Elizabeth (now the
Queen Mother) lo Paris. The
stamp depicted a seal with
hands clasped in friendship,
flanked by views of the Arc de
Triomphe and the Houses of
Parliament al Westminster.
The visit took place at a time
when France and Britain were
demonstrating their solidarity
in face of the threat from Nadi
Germany.

During the phoney war in the
winter of 1929-40 this spirit of
amity grew considerably. In
January, in a speech at the
Mansion House, Churchill
oullined a proposal for a per-
manent federal union of France
and Britain, and this provoked
correspondence in The Times
suggesting the joint issue of
stamps (o publicise the close
ties of the two countries. The
French Minister of Posts wrote

ta the Postmaster General,
Major Tryon, proposing a
France-British stamp. Tryon
received the approval of the
kindand the project went ahead
speedily.

Plans were made to launch
the Franco-Brilish stamps in
Seplember 1940 and Henri
Cheffer prepared a design
showing King George and the
French President, This design
was submitted to the British
Post Office and subsequently
modified by Edmund Dulac for
the photogravure process. The
choice of Dulac as the British
designer was singularly ap-
propriate since he was born and
broughl up in Toulouse and
later became a_ naturalised
British subject, Dulac designed
several british stamps in the
reign of King George VI, as well
as one of the Coronation stamps
of 1953, and his role in Anglo-
French philately was of the
greatest importance.

The design, as it was finally
evolved, had a female figure
symbolising concord, flanked
by medallions portraying the
king and the president, In the
background to the medallions
were ships and a farming scene
respectively, alluding to the
commercial and agricultural
importance of the partners.
Behind the medallions were the
two national flags, @ British
crown and the French
republican insignia, and in the
jower corners a ship’s anchor
and ears of wheat. The designs
in both countries were to be-
identical, except for the figure
of value and the word Postage
or Postes,

Preduelion by Harrison ad
Sons was begun in June, but the
German invasion of France and
the Low Countries, and the fall
of France, brought the project
toa standstill. The designs were

OUTDOOR

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The hunting season is under
way once more, and, as Mr.
Hamilton remarked, there will
be some hunters that will be

_. shot at and in some cases killed.

, The odds against your being

= perforated by some nimrod

‘ packing a 44 are quite well.
stacked in your favor, as
statistics have shown. Even
though your favorite grouse
roost looks like a Viet Nam fire
fight it is not likely that more
than 5 hunters will die in B.C.
this year.

But this is § to many. Hunting
accidents, with the exception of
accidental discharge of a
firearm, are caused by.a willful
act in that the object shot must
be first identified and then the
trigger must be pulled. Car
accidents, on the other hand
usually are a combination of
many factors, including the
unknown quantity the other
driver.

J haveseen documented cases
of hunters being shot ‘‘because I
thought it was a deer’’ when the
season was for bucks only. Boy
and man, I’veseen a lot of buck
deer, and I've seen a lot of
hunters out chasing them. It has
been my experience that bucks
always had antlers whereas the
hunters wore’ hats. If a hunter
lakes’ the time to properly

identify his quarry and to ~

establish thal it does wear
antlers and is therefore legal
game, there is no way he could
truthfully say it “looked” like a
deer.” ,
The key lo eliminating
_ hunting accidents is in the
proper identification of your
intended target, If the season is
for males only. there should be
no accidental shootings, but a
different situation occurs as
secon ‘as the antlerless season
opens. With the advent of an-
tlerless season, all members of
a particular specie are legal
game and the need for positive
sex identification is gane. Now
themighty nimrod can touch off
the old flintlock as soon as he
’ -spots.a piece of fur or the off leg
“of a blind ox’ He no longer has to
.worry about the warden
arresting him for shotting
illegal game, so he neglects to
‘properly identily his quarry and
‘ends up shotting the warden, |
_ What' about ‘the “practice ‘of

- shooting at'a plece: of fur or a:
~Jeg.? When 1.was small enough :

to walk under.a calf moose and:
not'touch a-belly hair.my: Dad
_ told’ mé-“I£ you expect to.ever

. fdll.a deer, never shoot just ‘at

~“theanimal, you must shoot for a
- particular parto f the animal, Tf -

- you. don't aim -for'.the heart,.

+ You'll: wind: up gut ‘shooting It,

and’ if-you bring any gut shot
meat into this house CH warm
‘your backside.” 9.0 5 12"

ve. always “followed. “that

Les Watmough

My Dad told me many things
about hunting, and his was good
‘advice. He maintained that
some hunters shoot at things
ihey shouldn't because they
have seen a moose or deer-run
into a thicket they follow and
shoot at the first thing that
moves in tha t particular area.

I've grown some since then;
now I can see over the “hump”
of a bull moose, and I left my
prairie home and have beat the
dust out of some city streets.
Just to walk into a sporting
goods shopin Vancouver and
look at, and listen to, same of
the people that are planning to
hit up country and terrorize the
game population is to be truly
enlightened.

Some of the things people
think about hunting would make
a buck deer giggle, and an
experienced hunter look for a
very large and very limby
‘ponderosa pine tree to take
refuge behind. .

With all the written material
available in the local library
and the vast amoun tin a
library in Vancouver) there s no
reason for anyone to be ignorant
of wildlife ways. When our
candidate for the deerslayer
award gets through the library
there is a hunter trainer course
available to him through the

- Rod and Gun Club in his area.
Let me now state that all this
reading and training will not
guarantee that the new recruit
will go out and bag a buck the
first hour, It never was intended

to guarantee hunter success, it -

is aimed at hunter survival, to
keep you [rom killing one of.
your companions. oy

i

In B.C. at present you can be

filed away {n the archives and

quietly forgotten. As recently as
ten years ago there were per-
sistent remours that such a
serie of stamps had been
planned, but there was no of-
ficial confirmation at a time
when British entry to the
Common Market was_heing
vetoed by General de Gaulle.
Since then the climate has
improved and the Franco-
British slamps of 1940 have
been revealed to the public.
Laler in the war Dulac
designed stamps for many of
the French colonies which had
gone aver to Gaullists. The
majority of these stamps were
printed in photogravure by
Harrison and Sens, though the
stamps of the West Indian
islands of Guadeloupe and
Martinique were lithographed
by De La Rue. Dulac also
designed the handsome
Marianne series for France
herself, recess-printed by De La
Rue in 1944 and issuedin France
following the liberation.
Anglo-French co-operation is
seen al its best in the workings
of the New Hebrides Condo
minium, This group o£ Pacific
islands has been jointly ruled by
France and Britain since 1997
and stamps inscribed in eithe r
French or English, but in-
corporating the symbols of '-oth
countries, have been used there

charged with manslaughter if | e

you kill a fellow hunter. I can —

remember the Harrison boys *.:
Doc and Junior, fighting for law...
that would hand out a man-...

slaughter charge in any death -

as the result of shooting while. |

out hunting. Unfortunately they
were not too successful, the .

‘Crown. still only prosecutes if ~~
things point to gross negligence 7

or murder. :

In Quebes, there is provision.”

made in the game act to charge -

anyone hunting in a dangerous

manner. This seems to me to be”
' . an idéal situation, as it tries -to.

prevent.a shooting, instead ‘of * ;
merély. prosecuting after a life“.

has been lost;

_. ‘There could be five: people. .

shot ‘in: hunting. accidents - th

>year, and-it-is a’ sad, thing: to.

‘think about. But what .o

tera,
fl

. advice “and. though. I've let 2 Geer
"moose and deer go thelr way. |

without my firing’a shot, I've

. “Man for. a moose.

" geidom rained any good steaks “for. 4
‘and I’ve never, ever mistaken a

rat.

THE HERALD, TE

since 1911, French and Britisti

designers and printers have co-
operated to produce the stamps,
many of which allude to the dual
nature of the New Hebrides.
When the Anglo-French
Concorde was inaugurated In
, 1968 stamps were issued not
only by Britain and France, but

also by several French colonies.

to celebrate the cecasion and
the New Hebrides
stamps, in English or French,
printed by De La Rue. Among
the recent issues from this
territory were stamps por-
traying De Gaulle to com-
memorate the 30th anniversary
of the Free French movement.
France, incidentally, issued a
stamp in 1964 to mark the 20th
anniversary of the liberation
and reproduced the letter from
4 Carlton Gardens, London SWI
in which De Gaulle appealed to

his countrymen to support him .

‘in June 1940,

To coincide with the Queen's
visit to Franee last May an
exhibition of Anglo-French
philately was held in Paris. This
exhibition has now been tran-
sferred to the National Postal
Museum in London, and in-
cludes artwork, proofs, essays
and other material as well as
the issued stamps.

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