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...tomorrow. But while stamp collectors have earned a reputation as quiet and retiring types, they have sometimes proved to be less than perfect models for the kiddies. A one-penny Mauritius "Post Office" Red recently sold in England for $23,800 is known to have belonged to an unlikely philatelist, Manhattan Financier Eddy Gilbert, before he fled to Brazil in last year's E. L. Bruce scandal. And in 1892, a Parisian named Hector Giroux was so anxious to get his hands on the Hawaiian Missionary auctioned last week that he went to Fellow Collector Gaston Leroux...
...International Topical Stamp Exhibition in Bombay, judges pored over the entries, declared New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman the winner. Title of Philatelist Spellman's picturesque display: "America the Beautiful...
What did Mr. Truman have in mind? asked Kohen, who once sold Philatelist Franklin Roosevelt choice items for his stamp collection. Harry Truman answered as many another husband might in a rare fling at picture buying; he had no very strong views about painters or styles. What he did know was that he wanted something about two feet high and three feet wide. Said the President: "I know exactly the place where I want to hang...
Even the Lexington postmaster was swamped. The U.S. Government had just issued a new 3? stamp in honor of the occasion, and collectors everywhere were writing in for first-day covers. One Swedish philatelist added that he had been a lifelong admirer of "Sir Washington and Sir Lee." That was a fairly universal sentiment around Lexington this week...
...took us no more than the customary fifteen minutes to argue our way past the same ticket taker we had to argue our way past for the Annual Flower Show, The Annual Shoe Distributor's Exhibit, and the Annual Coin Collector's and Philatelist's Colloquium. The publicity agent however was a stranger-only the uniform looked familiar. His name was John Cotter and he were a double breasted pin striped number with a hand painted tie. His hat brim was turned...