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...laymen the world's best-known stamp collectors are George V of Britain and Franklin D. Roosevelt of the U. S. Philatelists know that the world's greatest stamp collectors were Count Philippe la Renotiere von Ferrari of Austria and Arthur Hind of Utica, N. Y. who bought the cream of the Ferrari collection on the Count's death and who died last March at the age of 77 (TIME, March 13). Last week the most important philatelic event since the Ferrari sale of 1922 occurred in Manhattan when the first part of the great Hind collection...
...Arthur Hind emigrated to the U. S. 43 years ago, established a plush mill in Utica which greatly prospered. Personal profits went into stamps. His first big purchase was a lot of 12,000 for which he paid $3,000. After weeding out forgeries, worthless stamps, repaired and damaged stamps, 500 were left. The faster plush rolled out of his mills the faster stamps snowed into his albums. Lord Duveen managed to sell him his own stamp collection for $170,000. In 1922 Arthur Hind made world headlines by paying the highest price ever for a postage stamp...
...York, then to Philadelphia where Eugene Klein picked it up for $15,000. He in turn sold it to the late Hetty Green's son for $20,000; Col. Green kept 20 and returned the rest back to Klein who peddled them to other collectors. Last week Collector Hind's block of four fetched...
...matched against Sweden's Lieut. Nyblaeus for the deciding round. Mounted on Ugly, Lieut. Raguse cleared every barrier without a fault. Lieut. Nyblaeus had to equal that performance to win. He took the first five barriers cleanly. On the last his mount's hind foot knocked down the top bar, giving victory to the U. S. But Sweden's Captain Ernst Hallberg won the hotly contested honors for individual jumping. Throughout the meet the un happy Czechoslovakians, who had arrived late and lacked practice, never budged out of last place...
...Egan desperately cut Brown Berry inside her. At the same time Hollyrood Portia swung wide outside her. Three abreast, they drove down the stretch like a cinema chariot race. While the crowd roared at the season's greatest finish, Brown Berry found a little extra in his tough hind legs, won by a hand. Mary Reynolds had enough left to beat Hollyrood Portia by the same margin...