| Show STAMP who are to their hobby A brief of the III atory of postage sta ray collecting la this country an extensive and lucrative business the enthusiasm of collectors of rare postage stamps and the amount of money spent annually in the purchase of the little colored bits of paper will cause surprise when one remembers that stamps for postage first came into york times it the demand foi rare stamps has become so great that men arm explorers and maite countries infested iby highwaymen to secure of the stamp makers art today to day there arc millions intha business which cx t tennis and is kept about orty journals the interests of stamp collectors lec tors that rare stamps are literally hunted for with ins was verified by a collector of sty recently returned from whither he went forthe for the purpose of obtaining specimen of the postal stamps ina that before that date envelopes were unknown in lex ico and the pasted on abe outside of the letter itself which was maae to answerl he double purpose of ferand let envelope in order to secure these stamps it is necessary to hold ot old letter files and as antly letters of a business nature can be secured the files of old houses offer almost the only means to the collector and dealer of retting at the coveted treasure family letters lct are never sold and in owners of busi 5 jess letters will themo the lask of the collector in af stamps not n casy oab through busin cs the collectte collect OE obtainer obtain cr access to ho lellep firms ia alic and some of these he was able chase nearing of an old house at Cuema vaca would probably dispose of its files he gif there with ils secretary a the town is about itty milas southwest west ci the chy of mexico and lic through a region ululated ulu by highway men when departing from the city of the stamp hii aters berc ad risea to rm themselves vall aal litiby toola pj rt of the way art on horseback they wore not molested for theroan the road wa at tse time patrolled by mounted police for the bonfi distance stamp collecting 1 the collector says acan as soon as the use of stamen acome general or about 1817 great britain used the first potris stamps cd in ibbs nall the StAte Sn 1847 lievore that postage was prepaid pre paid ni it is on express packages toi to i day about 5 hc first journal le voted to the literature of postage ia I elium it was p lc started liere was the philatelic journel of america in there arc at present thirty to forty papers published in the interest of collectors and seven of these fare first rate there arenow 1 three incorporated companies in this country which deal in stamps these are at each new york has two companies and st louis one the e of stamps every elbein trade is regulated by the simple law of demand and supply if a wealthy collector is without a certain specimen that an increased value whether it he rare or not rare stamps ure therefore frequently valuable as more common ones wanted by rich collectors but generally speaking 3 stamps which have been in use only a are the most difficult to get and the most expensive there is no hanger of stamps of recent date becoming as rare as hose of farmr issues before great britain sent stamps to mauritius they were printed there in plates twenty impressions at a timea The result was that each of the twenty w as amm ahe others in some minor detail A rich collector ia not satisfied with one mauritius one of eveia varie tyr and this makes behe highest rice reve paid for a ringle at public auctioning auction in new york city was for a issue d by the postmaster at the government issued stamps A stamp issued at the new haven post office holdin st louis ago for much higher J prices have been paid at private sale for early issues of stamps of british guiana and mauritius colonial governments often run out of stamps of a bertain being unable to get them abonce r from the mother country they stamp thade i sired value on other stamps for instance a french colony may run out of stamps valued at centimes cen times and will print on their 25 stamps 50 1 thus malang a new issue this will create a demand for this new variety when the supply of regular 50 centime tiers ti mrs arrives the government officers can therefore print any number of these emer gencye stamps hold them until they become ra remand then dispose of theato collectors stamps and the postmasters in tha french provinces have made them so often without any reason fn an doing so other than sor that he sentiment against postage stamps has grown so strong anat anti stamp tion has been m riis canty of there are innumerable imitations sell io and ama beur ct electors these counterfeits are especially common in germany and switzerland when there last summer I 1 saw displayed m shop windows of all the large cities it is very easy for stamps 1 to detect a NY times |
