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Late as the January BULLETIN is in going to press, it is not possible
to tell of the result of the Christmas Stamp sale. This must wait for
the April issue, but that the result promises to be remarkable is shown
by the fact that the wholesale orders received up to December 15th at
Red Cross Headquarters from the State Branches and Anti-Tuberculosis
Associations authorized by the Red Cross to sell these stamps aggregated
twenty-five millions and it has proved most difficult to have the stamps
printed rapidly enough to fill these orders. It was not possible when the
orders were pouring in at over a million a day to reply as rapidly as was
desired. Neither Red Cross Headquarters nor State Branches anticipated
any such remarkable demand. For the season of 1909 a new stamp will be
issued, for the design of which a prize will be offered. Regulations
governing the competition for this prize will be formulated and issued
later.
The Red Cross has received through the courtesy of Mr. Einar Holboll,
Postmaster of Centofte, Denmark, a copy of this year’s Danish Christmas
stamp. The coloring is dark blue with a yellow light shining through the
corridors of the Sanitarium for Tuberculosis Children, built by means of
the Danish Christmas stamps.
[Illustration: DANISH CHRISTMAS STAMP FOR 1908]