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...auction last week by the London firm of Robson Lowe, Ltd. had left Mauritius on a letter to a wine merchant in Bordeaux (it took 85 days to get there). As well as being rare, they were in excellent condition. So when the bidding reached ?27,500, Raymond H. Weill, a New Orleans dealer, made his only bid-?28,000. It was the highest price ever offered for a philatelic item, and nobody chose to go higher. The hammer fell, and Mr. Weill leaned across to a fellow American. "How much is ?28,000 in dollars?" he asked. Answer...
...Raymond Weill's stamp store in New Orleans' French Quarter, which he runs with his brother, is far from being one of the largest in the U.S., but Dealer Weill is no novice at big-time bidding. Last May he paid $41,000 for a Hawaiian "Missionary" two-center of 1851, which was the highest price ever paid for a single postage stamp at a public auction. Only instance when this price was surpassed was in 1940, when an 1856 British Guiana one-center, brought $45,000 at a private sale...
Fellow philatelists speculated that he may have been acting for a private collector in making his record bid. Bachelor Weill (whose own hobby is collecting rare gold coins and porcelain birds) was noncommittal. "We're just going to put it on the shelf and wait for a buyer," he said...
Schlamme's trained voice seems a bit too genteel to audiences accustomed to the guitar-bound school of folk singers-they tend to write her off as a lady Richard Dyer-Bennet. But in her Weill program, her emotional command over her audiences is unshakable. The nervous laughter that always greets such songs as Seerauber-Jenny and Barbara's Song dies in the throat under the weight of her sad eyes. "It's easy for me to feel like a rejected woman," she says, "and I think I can make it clear that...
...suffering of the Jews is very central to her-and central to her songs. She finds Weill and Brecht cultural soul mates, but last summer when she tried out some Weill on a Jewish audience, Brecht's German lyrics caused a near riot. Many in the audience stormed out, and one man began to scream at her, "Stop singing German!" Schlamme left the stage, soothed herself with a deep breath, then returned to the spotlight to freeze her remaining listeners with one final line. "I haven't been so frightened," she said, "since the Hitler Youth chased...