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...many a philatelist can (and probably will) inform you, the violet-brown likeness of the acrid old Unionist who marched through Georgia adorned the 8? stamp of the regular issue throughout the decade 1894-1904. That 40 years back Sherman was thus licked by innumerable Southerners (without poisonous effect) and that his likeness underwent besmirchment at the hands of many a Southern postmaster makes the present sputtering of legislative bodies in South Carolina and Georgia seem pointless indeed...
...alternately left & right. Thus Queen Victoria faces left, King Edward VII right, King George V left." Not being familiar with British coins, I am unable to challenge your statement regarding them. However, I have examined British and British Colonial postage stamps for a good many years, as has every philatelist of any experience. Therefore. I must ask you to correct your statement regarding Sovereigns' faces on British stamps. All of the faces of British Sovereigns on British stamps since the first one was issued, in 1840, face to the left-that is, the reader's left. . . . The same...
...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 of Utica, N. Y. bought the famed stamp for $32,500, offered it as a present to Philatelist George V. The King of England graciously declined to accept...
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...
...President Roosevelt, ardent philatelist, approved designs of two stamps to commemorate Chicago's Century of Progress...