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Greece. The city of Corinth, 1?? miles from the Gulf of Corinth, was a flourishing trade centre as early as the 6th Century B. C. It suffered spoliation at the hands of the Romans, recovered prosperity when Julius Caesar re-peopled it with Italian freedmen. Since 1896 the American School of Classical Studies has been digging on the site. Last season the School's director, Richard Stillwell of Princeton, reported excavation of a building which was evidently the headquarters of a great banking & shipping union. Elaborate mosaic floors were found intact, one depicting a female figure astride a Triton, accompanied...
...Pullman fares have not been cut 1?? to meet present price levels. Western and Southern roads have voluntarily dropped the notorious 50% surcharge on Pullman space which many a passenger wrongly held against the Pullman Co. instead of the railroads. Eastern roads with heavier passenger traffic have neither dropped the surcharge nor reduced the basic fare...
...year-old Georgetown boy named Vernon Vaughan found a frayed magenta 1?? British Guiana stamp on an old family letter. More as a favor to the youngster than anything else, a collector named Neil R. McKinnon bought it for six shillings. Ten years later McKinnon sold his entire collection to Thomas Ridpath of Liverpool for $600. By that time the 1?? British Guiana stamp had become known and Count Phillipe la Renotiere von Ferrari, biggest stamp collector in Europe, bought it from Ridpath for $750. In 1922 the Ferrari collection was sold in Paris. The late Arthur M. Hind...
Last week it became known that if King George wants to be the only man in the world to own a "British Guiana, 1856, 1?? magenta," it will cost him no less than $50,000. That is the price now set on the stamp by Philatelist Hind's widow, Mrs. Pascal Costa Scala, who last spring married a monument salesman who called to sell a tombstone for her husband's grave. Mrs. Scala announced last week that she would shortly take her valuable sliver of red paper to London's Royal Philatelic Society where prospective purchasers will have a chance...
...intended using an underwater color photograph taken by U. S. Submarine Photographer John Ernest Williamson as decoration for a new airmail stamp. Should The Crown's presses break down when his new stamp was being printed, he might produce one or two stamps which would eventually rival the 1?? British Guiana's value. But it seemed more likely that the new Bahamian stamps would retain only their nominal value despite the fact that the first batch of letters bearing the airmail stamps will be sent from the submerged Williamson "photosphere...