Show NO BAD POSTAGE STAMPS find it unprofitable to trouble contal authorities counterfeiters Counterfeit ers do 10 not find it profeta to lo ply illy their ioviti oration on in the postal sen ri i ic according to an all official of it uio the Post postoffice office demartin lit who to has been ian in the service for over mer twenty years rears I 1 there here it hii hi a s i it liron en no counterfeiting 0 of stamps ta nip during that period A few nears ears ago the Postil postmaster laster general ill ordered it a reprint of nix an obsolete of a livo five cent cc nt stamped envelope it was a i mistake illi stake ou on the part of the department part ment and ns as soon its it was discovered all or of these envelopes about KII lu in number were called lit in A stamp collector colle clur clor in ill new york in some way learned that these envelopes anere ere soon to by be failed in so lie he bought boncha 1 lgon 00 oo or of iben afore in fore the postmaster istar bad flatto send them theiu back to lo the department part ment afier Afie rall all the others had been colled called in ili it lip hall a I 1 monopoly of tile the 1 issue atie anil and lie was selling then them freely at ri 5 ench each to stamp cranks ci binks lie ile paid but fine ne cents apiece for thein hence bi his profit was enormous there I 1 Is another in incident eident where inhere a lamp ecil collector lector learned that there would lie ile a I 1 short issue or of a cert certain certain tin denomination put lit in evroul circulation 1111 in 10 so lo he went ment to the he contractor and in worth of the new esuo ue ile he attempted to it sell them it at gro greatly a ily advanced prices lit ices a and nd complaint oni plaint was made to ill the department an investigation was ordered and the result was an unlimited number was ordered to be printed and the man who had ini invested ested ell d in ili laou lo Ou worth was so badly stuck t k that lie he appealed to the department to redeem those lie he had not sold |