Show DAP LL HAN H. H HAS HAS' S MOST MOST COMPLETE TE TEST ST STAMP AMP COLLE COLLECTiON TION Continued from page 1 collection of the Confederate states stamps PONY EXPRESS STAMP Then there Is the tho pOl pony y express stamp a picture of a rider looking back over ills hIs Sl houlder out ler per her ha haps s at pursuIng Indians Letters cost 23 cents cens per hal half ounce in those days das There Ther are o of the first two issues s ever eyer made in the United States and stamps issued issue In tho day when the president the war var agricultural ug state arid and justice departments do- do all had specIal stamps Included In the collection of United States stamps are the first Issued for periodicals These came ame out in 1865 and are the largest of all They bear beal the familiar r he heads ds of Washington Lincoln oln and Fran Fran- un One of the strangest stamps beArs beArs' the picture of ofa p. p bOy bay on a bicycle These w wOre re issued during the big railroad strike of 1 94 when mall had to be carried between San Francisco and Fresno Cal on q ire e fourteen volumes said and they are kept well vell guarded I. I have collected stamps all ray J life Stamp 1 collecting o etI was once L SL H. U. U Hero are complete collections of stamps from Ireland Now New Found Found- lan land Nova Noya Scotia Prince Edw Edward rd Island and nd Ne New Brunswick as well ell ellas as m many n oth ts Stamp collectors often stop over oer in hi S it Lale LakO on their Way nay across th the United d States to vl view w my in- in c FAS I WORK Vho has tha th most complete collection col- col lection of stamps WhyS Why the United States postal d department Here is a st stamp mp that you have never seen a a 5 cent stamp that in some some s seemingly miraculous wa way J was printed in the midst of ofa a block of cent 2 stamps starns There are only a a. few f. of these and collectors have ne never r oe 1 abl able to discover ver veras as yet how v the accident happened Here Is a stamp Issued in 1871 1811 value alue 6 c cOats and here helo is the same stamp cut in two value 3 cents That is the way the cent 3 stamp was was was' issued instead of making another another an- an other stamp I haVe also a steamer trunk trun filled with original stamped envelopes COllecting is fascinating ing work as anyone In the game Iame will tell 0 |