The Huron Expositor, 1935-07-26, Page 5A
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Matinees Sat. and ''Ho'liday's, 8 p.ns. Two shows nightly, 7.80 and 8.16.
aslrop ,at "lynumetb . One, day, a -couple
.sallol:te drepli e4 ifki and offered We
panket 'of ateenps thaP hiheiy hail
Jc ween in a 'reale lr>, rQ"ap9•'Totwn,. erle
were btu+gel, pleased with the twee.,
.
trifuwe 4ogars he offered them. In
opening the packet ,he found' many
,of the fornit r -:Cape of "Good I•Io�pe
"Triaxigulars.°,. That hag' of stamps
'Would to-day.1 e• 'Worth !better than
$100„000.
Kling 'George is one of t'he, world's
'greatest collectors. Nowhere . else in
the world is There such a collection
of British and Colonial stamps He
started collecting when a midshipman
On the •Bacchante; and he has been
an ardent devotee ever since. ' Two
nights a Week he spends with his
eolleotion! and it Is reported that
rwhen the ,German Zeppelins appear-
ed over London during the war, the
King's collection was the first thing
to be taken to the cellar.
The King's collection, is housed in
over two hundred alibunis, and it con-
tains not only most of the stamps
issued in all, parts 'of the Empire, but
ri't includes, as well, many historic
rarities; stamps of King Edwards
reign, showing the monarch's initial
indicating his approval of the design.
It has also the original pencil design
of the William 1Muiready cover, the
first postal .design issued. A note in
the collection atteststhat the origin-
al suggestion for the design was giv-
en the artist 'by Queen Victoria her-
self.
There are other novelties. At the
time of King Edward's death, a new
tnvoapenn ,•stamp was ready for is-
sue. Virtually the whole issue and
the plates were destroyed, ibut the
King has in his collection' an wean
celled pair. There is also a letter
,bearing a 'cancelled example 'of this'
stamp, the only cancelled specimen.
known. The letter was addressed to
the 'Priince .ofWales on May 5th. The
next day he was King.
The King has also .samples of the
two -penny Mauritius. One of these
was discovered in a long discardetd
school bey collection, whose owner
had bought it for .a few pence forty
years earlier. Just what the King's
collection is worth, it is difficult to
say, but under any condition • it is
worth well .in excess of half a million
dollars. •
King George •is not the only re-
presentative of royalty among stamp
collectors. The Emperor of Japan
'has a notable ,collection, as has also
King •Fuad of Egypt. Albert of Bel-
gium was a noted collector, and King
Leopold followed in his steps. Queen
Maud of Norway is an enthusiast, as
is also Alexander of Jugo-Slavia, the
Queen 'of Italy, and the Crotwn Prince.
The forxner Kings, Alfonso of Spain,
and Manuel of Portugal, also while
away their time with this almost un-
ivensal hobihy. President Roosevelt
finds his stamp collection a great re-
laxation.
It is a hobby that appeals to all
types of mind, as witness this •brief
array: Lord Birkenhead and Sir
?hili•p Cunliffe -Lister, Senator James
A. Calder, of Ottawa, representing
politics, and the bar; Major-General
Birdwood, the army; Toord Burnham
and Sir 'Hildebrand Harmsworth,' the
press; Forbes Robertson, the stage;
John Ih'inkwater, the writing craft;
J. M. Keyes, the economist; Seven
Hedin, the explorer; and the Duke
of Argyll, the nobility.
The stamps of British North Am-
erica, which,- from a philatelist's
standpoint represent Canada, begin-
ning with, the various provincial is-
sues, and Newfoundland, are stead-
ily growing in interest and import •
ante. That is so because they have
been largely free from speculation
issues, 'and from an overwhelming
number of minor differences, and be-
cause of the high stapdard of art
maintained.
Another factor that makes for out-
standing
utstanding value in Canadian and New-
foundland stamps is the small and
scattered population that existed,
coincident with the early stamp is-
sues, and the fact that only one of
them remained in circulation for any
extended period of time. This was
the small Queen Victoria issue that
had a run of twenty-seven years.
There are •no Canadian stamps re-
corded in the first flight of stamp
values, but the twelve penny df the
1852 isqsue comes well up in the sec-
ond. 'ff you happened to run across
one you would be fairly safe in ex-
pecting that from any one of a doz-
en or more sources you could get a
cheque ;for $1,200. Robert G. Lowe,
Toronto stamp dealer, tells of seeing
a frame of twenty-six of these stamps
belonging to Mr. Lichtenstein, of
New York, for which Mr. Lichtenstein
had paid upwards of $26,000, and
that sante time ago.
N)w, there were 1,510 of these
stamps actually issued before the bal-
ance was destroyed,' and it is always
possible that somewhere other of
these stamps may be found. They
were issued in payment for postage
to England and most of them doubt-
less were used for that purpose, so
that the possibility of finding them
would no doubt be somewhat bright
er in England than here. Still, it is
always a possibility that, tucked away
in some corner, one of these stamps
might still be found.
Hobbp of 1,000 Faces
(By Joseph Lister in The Canadian Magazine).
!Any ?game. that can attract alike,
kings and kids, cabinet ministers and
ibusiness executilvles, governments and
private individuals, must have an
abiding interest. It must provide ex-
citement, suspense, romance, and all
these are to be found in the thousand
faces• that peer from the postage
:stamps of the world.
There are still people who think
,of it as a iboyisli• ihobleyrxhat soberer
;years +wd11 soon dispel."' It is true
that; all over the wlerld, boys and
;girls . are ,following this: hobby with
anassiduous, 'if, sometimes only fleet-
ing enthusiasm. But over the known
,world too, keen. Men in positions of
•growerand influence, are turning to
the colleetfon of stamps as an outlet
for their interest and enthusiasm; a
grand total, it is estimated, of over
four mfillllon collectors. Great busi-
nesses halve been built atbaut it, and
amazing fortunes have been spent
flor dingy scraps of ,paper little more
than an inch square. There are over
twenty stamps that are worth well
Lover ten thousand dollars each. There
are several hundred that you could
sell at a moment's notice at over a
thousand dollars each. They have
arott 'declined in value, even in these
past days, but through the years
'Cave steadily .pyramided in a way
that would make the .spook market
dizzy.
Back in 1856 British Guiana, the
little British colony, in South 4anerica
was .suffering from a stamp famine,
.Starnes were coming from England,
but England was a goodish way off
in those days, and the need was im-
mediate. In this emergency they
turned to the printer, and in the of -
#ice of the Official Gazette a stamp
was turned :out, with ordinary print-
ing office type and a small and rather
draggled design of • a sailing ship.
No one knows just how many of
them stamps were printed, and in the
years thlat followed they were en-
tirely forgotten. Then, one day,- a
eolith by the name of Vernon Vaugh-
an, running through some old papers,
•came across this dungy effort. Its
authenticity was assured, for it bore
the initials of one of the postal of-
iicials. Young Vernon gladly parted
with it to a collector named • McKin-
non for six shillings. That was in
1872, and the lad no doubt figured
that be had done quite a day's ,work,
But McKinnon six years later, sold
it to Thomas Redpath of London,
England, for the not inconsiderable
price of 1120. Redpath in turn .dis-
tpose,d Of it to an .eccentric collector,
Count Ferrary. There it remained
for some time, ulvtil this collection
was finaily•+broken up. At that time
It was 'bought by an agent for the
late Arthur Hind, of New York, who
paid $32,500 plus an imposing tax of
17 per• cent., making the total cost
close to $40,000 for one stamp.
Its amazing value lies in the fact
that it is the only one of its kind
known. If anyone were .so fortunate
as to discover a duplicate it might
affect the value a trifle, but even so
it would be worth having,
There is another stamp of which
thirty copies are known bo exist that
is still worth from fifteen to twenty
thousand dollars. It is the one pen-
ny Mauritius, and it has a two penny
sister that is only slightly less valu-
able. They are jin'own as the "Past
Office" stamps, and they too have a
rather interesting_ history. It seems
that the wife of the Governor of the
colony, a small island of the east
coast of Africa, had ordered. -invita-
tions prepared for a ball. Evidently
'the lady had ideas of her own, for
she decided that the invitations must
go by mail, and as•no stamps exist -
THE McKILLOP MUTUAL
FIRE INSURANCE CO'Y,
HEAD OFFICE—SEAFORTH, ONT.
OFFICERS:
Alex. BroadPootr• Seaforth - Pres,
James Connolly, doderioh - Vice -Pres.
Merton A. Reid, Seriforth - Sec.-Treas.
AGENTS:
Finlay McKercher, R. R. 1, Dublin;
John 'Murray, R. R. 3, Seaforth; E. R.
•G, Jarmouth, Brodhagen; Jas, Watt,
Blyth; O. D. Hewitt, Kincardine; W.
J. Yeo, Goderich.
DIRECTORS:
William Knox, LondeSboro; George
.Leonhart, Brodhagen; James Con-
nolly, Goderieh' Alex. Broadfoot, No.
8, 'Seaforth; Alexander McEwing, R.
R. 1, Blyth; John Pepper, Brucefield;
James •Sholdice, Walton; Thos. Moy-
lan, No. 6, Seaforth; Wm. R. Archi-
bald, No. 4, Seaforth.
ed for the. dolony, that presented
•something. • of a problem. But the
.governor's lady was determined and
resourceful. She called in a jewel-
ler named Barnard and entrusted him
with the task of making the die for
the stamp. They were to carry a
bust, of Queen Victoria and the wards,
"Mauritius„ Pest Paid, One +Penny."
The jeweller worked late . on the
Stamp's' and in the fent'husia,sm of
the work he 'became a bit befuddled
as to the inscription. It was too late
to discussIt it with anyone, so he de-
cided to take a walk; passing the post
ofiee, it suddenly came to hiin that
those were the mussing wards, so he
returned to his work and .diligently
finished the, die. • • '
'When it *as delivered, the mis-
take was immediately discovered -It
should' have read, `Post Paid" not
"Post C i,ce." But there was. an ir-
ate governor's lady with her invita-
tions still to mail. There was much
pro-ing and con-ing but in the end,
enough stamps were struck Off to
supply the need, and the die destroy-
ed. And so we 'have the second mast
+v,aluable stamp in the world. In the
collection of, Kinig George there are
two of them. There are six in col-
lections on. this continent, two in the
collection of Alfred F. Lichtenstein,
wealthy dye magnate of New York,
Who is probably the ranking collector
on this c.ontinant. Quite recently Mr.
Lichtenstein refused an offer' of
$30,000' for one of his specimens.
IStarnps it must be remembered are
not necessarily valuable because they
are old. Their value arises from
their rarity. Many stamps, old in
years, as stamps go, have only a
nominal value, while others, perhaps
of more recent issue, are worth a
great deal. , They b risme valualble
when issues are :small, or in exist-
ence. for only a brief time, or when
there are variations from the nor-
mal. The human desire for tidiness
does the rest." Stamps of inealeulable
value are burned or destroyed every
year. Yet still there is treasure
trove. It is to be found in package of
old letters or documents, lying in for-
gotten 'bundles in attics, in store
rooms. Sometimes they are in let-
ters `doing duty as 'book -marks, and
in the family 'bible. Anywhere where
old •paper may lie is a possible trea-
sure ground that awaits the investi-
gator.
A few years ago a bank in Phila-
delphia sold an accumulation • of
musty decuments to a junk dealer
for fifteen dollars. These papers,
yellow with age, yielded stamps worth
over $75,000. The bank, discovering
the fact, sued for recovery of a por-
tion of the value, but the junk dealer
was sustained in the contention that
they were his by right of discovery.
In 1926, a Mrs. Edmund Leadbeater,
of Alexandria, Virginia, while burn-
ing an accumulation of paper belong-
ing to' her dead husband, came across
a letter that had been written to him
when he was a boy•of seven. As' it
was his first letter, he had hoarded
it carefully.
His widow, reading it, discplvered
that it mentioned the name of a
friend, and thinking it would be of
interest sent it along to him. The
friend kneev little about stamps 'but
the one on7the letter seemed peculiar
to him. It was dated in Alexandria,
August 25. 1846, one year 'before fed-
eral postage began in the United
States. It was blue and of five cent
value. The friend was interested en-
ough to show it to a Baltimore deal-
er who promptly bought it for the
tidy sum of $8,000. At that, he didn't
do himself any injustice for, in the
past eighty-eight years. only six cop-
ies of the stamp have been discovered
and to -day it is valued at $12,000.
Back in 1894, a New Jersey farm-
er, rummaging in an attic, came a-
croes a stamp marked, Boscowen,
New Hampshire. He was interested
enough to take it to an antique deal-
er in town, who paid him five dollars
for it, and t.hat being the price of a
suit of clothes, ,the farmer was more
than satisfied. That same stamp was
last sold in 1933 for $5,000. From its
original selling price it had advanc-
ed in value more than a hundred dol=
lars every year, which is not a bad
investment.
Such a leaky fi`{rtd led to the estab-
lishment off one oflthe world's great-
est stamp 'comrpantes, doing business
in fifty-two countries—that of Stan-
ley Gibbons and Company, of Lon-
don, England. In 1880; young Stan-
ley Gibbons .was a stamp collector
in a small way, even trading a bit,
in a corner of his father's chemist
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There is another stamp that might
seem to offer more golden apportund,-
ties. There is only one of its Idind
known. It is the two cent green of
the 1868 issue, on laid paper, and it
is owned by Dr, L. L. Reford, a not-
ed
oted Canadian collector of Drummond
Street, Montreal. There are plenty
of these two cent green stamps to
he seen anywhere,•catalogued at only
a dollar or so, but these are on *ove
paper, and in Dr. Reford's example,
the stamp is on laid paper; that is,
the paper has a series of parallel
lines crossing the stamp that are
lighter than the body. These are
readily seen against the light.
Now, stamps. are printed in blocks
of two hundred and forty to the
sheet, and even if there were only
one sheet of such paper used, there
were possibly at one time that niu iu-
ber of copies of the staniip. It's worth,
looking for, because it is tentatitvlely
catalogued at a thousand dollars, and
is probably worth much more. . The
one cent brown and three cent teed
of the same. issue on laid paper are
catalogued in the hrundreds, and they
might be found in a thousand and
one places.
Prior to Confederation the ttha' e
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Maritime Provinces of Canada, and
British Columbia and Vancouver Is-
land, each had their own postal sys-
tems. Population was sparse and
'scattered anti probably lotted writing
was not a very active art. so these
stamps, especially in the shilling is-
sues, are rare and valuable.
There is one stamp nf New Bruns-
wick that has a rather interesting
stoyr, and because of the s has achiev-
ed a considerable value. At the time'
one, Charles Connell, WAS postmaster
the color of these stamps varied'
had a free hand in' deciding the de-
sign for the stamp and a very sound
lob he made of it. But Mr. Connell
was evidently no shrinking violet, and
when it came to deciding the design
for the five' cent issue it occurred to
him that he couldn't do better than
use his own portrait. This was done
and the stamp duly delivered. Natur-
ally, less favored politicians took
some umbrage at Mr. Connell's par -
trait sharing place with Queen Vic-
toria and the executive Council de-
creed that the stamp should not he
issued and a new one should be or-
dered at once.
'Mr:: Connell purchased the entire
stock and destroyed them. Practical-
ly all that are known were those
•that Mr. Connell himself presented as
favors at a banquet given to some of
his friends, but these stamps have a
very definite interest and value,
tSometim•de the character of • the
paper en which a stamp is printed
has an influence on its character. The
ten penny blue of the 1855 issue has
a portrait of Cattier .in an Oval. Notts
'Strips are printed on, Wit . t>s of
paper, and if the paper varies in
thickne,s it may result in shrinking
and cause the stamps to vary some-
whatin appearance. This stamp is
known with a wide and narrow oval.
due tr) the different thickness of pa-
per, and the wider oval has a mater-
ially' higher value,
Quite recently Postmaster -General
Garl.cy of the United States made
philatelic history and a peck of trou-
ble for himself through a generous
impulse that went wrong. Mr. Far-
ley withdrew some half dozen sheet,
of stamps before they had been per-
forated, paying for them, of course,
and sent them to certain friends as
a gift, .one of these sheets going ter
President Roosevelt. And that
would have been all right, but hav-
ing one sheet over, he thought it
would be a nice gesture to send a
sheet to an old and faithful retainer.
But the old retainer, as well as be-
ing faithful, had something of a com-
mercial eye. He sold his sheet to a
dealer for $32,000 and set himself up
for life.
Thereafter there followed a loud
wail from collectors everywhere to
know why these few should he spec-
ially privileged. Postmaster Farley
hadn't a notion that he was giving
anything dVinaterial value. He had
sent the sheets, as a man might send
a greeting bard, and with the same
pleasant intent. The clamour grew
so loud that Parley was disturbed,
He decided to issue imperforate
sheets, to any collector Who wanted
then. This was clone. The first .dayse
sales ran to several hundreds of thbu-
• satuds of dollars, and before all had
been satisfied over a million dollars
worth of these 4tamps had leen sold
to collects. But even then they
werent' satisfied; they objected that
the color of those stamps variel
slightly from the others. and what
was the Pos.:master going to do about
.that?Mr, Farley, his gond intentions
has :ng served hint badly, became
mildly_ exasperated. and decided to dot
n..e.1, ncr. And :here the matter rests
at 'the 1110rn en:.
There k a stamp that had a good
deal t1 (h with the Panama Canal.
When the United States bought the
canal right, from the insolvent
French company headed by Ferdinand
rhe Le.seps, there was a heated argu-
ment a- to whether they should fol-
low the route of the already partial-
ly completed canal or start another
through the adjacent republic of
Nicaragua. This latter course was
considerably favored. Its . opponents.
however, urged that such a route
would he endangered by the proximity
of active volcanoes. Its advocates
poohspo'ohed the suggestion. There
were no such active voloanies. Mr.
Philip Bunau-Varilla, a French en-
gineer, who happened also to he a
stamp collector, remembered the one
centavo stamp of Nicaragua, that
pictures Mb. Mamotomho erupting in
moat active fasthi•on. Very thought-
fully he'Mailed one of the stamps, to
each member of the United States
Senate, The Panama route was de-
cided upon by a majority of four
votes.
Even the softer sentrintents have
had their place in stamp collecting. A
lover, severed from his swee+tlieart by
&k
the gold rush to California in '49,
sent a valentine to his sweetheart in
Springfield, Mass, On it, he placed a
},lack ten cent stamp' of the issue of
1851. Sentimentally, the lady kept
it. Some years later, when the senti-
ment may have coaled, the envelope
with its black ten cent stamp came
to light and netted the lady a nice
little item of $1,7110.
Such stories lend a vivid interest
s,. `le: enthusiast, without changing
the active values: for values arise
nut of rarity, and all oonditions mili-
tate against rho stamp. It is so each
ilr destroyed. Even issues that run
into the millieee- become relatively
scarce in a ver- short space of time.
And because, ton. human hands are
fallible, there will always be minor
errors and 4ria•tions to delight the
heart of the collector.
Sowing Seeds of Perennial Flowers
Seeds of perennial flowers may be
sown now. The seedbed should be
made in a position where it it shad-
ed from the afternoon sun. The sur-
face soil should be raked very 'fine
crud the seeds sown in drips, the do t$
of &owing depending on the size of "' 0
seeds. The larger ones el oksld be
xvell eovered but the Ivry seolali Ones
need practically no coverang. The bedn
need careftvl watering and ;weedlai
and when the seedlings are large
nigh they should he strap
as to make good plants 'ba tait`fy i'
the permanent beds is the