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Life-Boat Stamp Club

As was announced in The Life-boat for last November, Miss Margaret Power, of Mount Royal, Old Common, Cobham, Surrey, honorary secretary of the Cobham branch, has formed a stamp club to sell postage stamps for the benefit of the Institution. She has received packets from a number of people and would like, through The Life-boat, to thank those who sent anonymously—one of whom sent, not a packet of stamps, but her whole stamp album. Just after the club was formed the Institution, by an odd coincidence, received a large packet from the West Indies. Rather more than half the stamps were current English issues, but the remainder were sent to the stamp club. Many readers of The Life-boat may have old letters put away. The stamps on such letters are more likely to be profitable than current issues of foreign countries, and it is such old envelopes that Miss Power will be most glad to receive..