Show I n ODD BEDROOM SUIT n14 I 1 PHILADELPHIA HAS FURNITURE Imo COVERED WITH STAMPS Work Has Taken Eight Years to Com 1 ptlto and 75500 Pieces i Colored Col-ored Paper Ui > i Set Is Valued dt 5000 Philadelphia When Robert Blank en retires ho goes to Bleep In a bed which outside of tho value of wood its worth In the neighborhood of 2500 Ho keeps his collars lhlrts and other apparel In a bureau worth piobably 11000 Tho table by which ho sits as ho reads or studies in the evening ho values at something like 875 Air Blnnken Is not an unusually wealthy man but ho has n fad Every Inch of tho throe pieces of furniture Including tho casters of tho bed and bureau Is covered with a United States postage stamp It has taken him eight years to complete tho work of coveting his furniture During that time ho has collected and used 75500 of tho little pieces of paper which carry letters through Uncle Sams malls They range In value from 5 to one cent and In date from 18GO to the present They include virtually evpry stamp Is t v sued t > y the government during the r8 years Of tho number 46000 aro lasted I on the bed 23000 on the bu reaii and 1500 on tho table In the lot nni 35 designs On tho footboard of the bed Is a largo keystone key-stone composed of 6CO pieces of stamps and a diamond shaped design containing the American and Cuban flags crossed above which Is an I American eagle and below a liberty boll On cither side are tho date 177G nnd 189S tho years of American and Cuban Independence Mr Blanken probably has ono cC thi most complete collections of Colum blan stamp In existence Thrcf thousand ot them arc pasted on the three pieces of furniture Ho alnfi has COO stamps of the Buffalo expo sltlon Issue On the top of the table is a circle of messenger boys cut from special delivery stamps All of theso were obtained from an Arch street t coflln firm and originally were on lot tars with rush orders for coffins From tho opposite side of the room the various designs bear tho appear once of Intricately colored Dresden china or cleverly executed mosaic ol pink and preen Probably tho handsomest 1 hand-somest design Is that on the headboard head-board 1 of the bcd It Is an American shield only three Inches In height and ono and a quarter Inches In width but It contains pieces of 250 stamps The most valuable stamp of the lot Is a 5 revenue stamp Issued during ho civil war It Is one of a complete set of revenuo stamps printed during the struggle between the states Mr Blacken who Is a draftsman I for tho J G Brill Car Company began his decorative work when ho was a boy ot 16 eight years ago He la very much attached to the handiwork To prevent possible harm to his treasures ho makes his bod himself overy morn lng working with tho greatest care Except for ono favored chum no person per-son but himself has over slept In the bed cdWhile While the real value of the stamps used on tho furniture was 4375 he says several curio dealers havo valued tho set at 5000 |