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Show Dowry Easily Provided. Out of the defective stamps on a collection of love letters, a girl in northern Sweden has obtained a hand some dowry. Some time ago the Swedish Swed-ish post office department issued a number of reprinted stamps. On certain cer-tain sheets the new denomination was by mistake put upside down, thereby making them extremely rare In collectors' collec-tors' eyes. These were bought by a young man who had promised his sweetheart to write her every day. lie kept his vow and after a month the girl had received 30 letters, all hearing hear-ing the faulty stamps. A philatelist discovered their existence and offered her 200 crowns each and she disposed of the entire 30 for 6,000 crowns (about $1,500). |