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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stained paper it had taken most of his life to acquire. Caspary's scraps of paper, worth an estimated $2,500,000, are the world's most valuable stamp collection in existence.* This week Britain's H. R. Harmer Ltd., the world's biggest stamp auctioneer, announced that its U.S. office has been awarded the job of selling the collection at auction over the next three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Just Like Mclaria | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

Stamps v. Stinks. To Harmer, which has sold and resold more than $42 million worth of stamps, the Caspary auction will be the biggest in a series of philatelic firsts that began 61 years ago. The family-owned company was founded by Henry Revell Harmer, who collected stamps as a schoolboy, decided after taking his first job in a chemical plant that he "could do better with stamps than with stinks." Harmer roamed the world in search of rarities, opened his first stamp auction in London in 1918. Harmer sold $56,000 worth of stamps his first season, trebled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Just Like Mclaria | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

Ethusiasm for impressionist paintings goes far beyond the auction rooms. French Critic François Mauriac puts it down to a nostalgic longing for times past. But the curator of Paris' Musée de l'Orangerie, where the recent U.S. loan show of French 19th century painting pulled 2,000 to 2,500 visitors daily, thinks the reason is even simpler: "People like to see pictures they understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bull Market | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

...auction block in Cairo: a confiscated, outsize frogman outfit, once the property of Egypt's bullfrogsize ex-King Farouk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 6, 1955 | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...convinced" said one Guildsman. "We're not really sure they're folding." Inside the Eagle building, Publisher Schroth sadly demonstrated in the only way he could that the paper was closed down for good. Unable to find a buyer for the Eagle, Schroth put it up for auction piecemeal. Bidding was slow, with only one $8,000 bid for the paper's name, good will and list of 124,000 subscribers (it was rejected as too low). Machinery dealers and printers paid $108,000 for some of the paper's mechanical equipment and another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dismembered Eagle | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

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