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Show Christmas Seal Use Urged by Chairman Rolf Peterson, Utah Christmas Seal chairman, urged Utahns to send In their Christmas Seal contributions con-tributions if they have not already alrea-dy done so, and to use the stamps on their letters and packages. pack-ages. "But, if you run across some ; old issues of the traditional Christmas Seal, don't use thc-m. They may be worth as much as $500," said Peterson. The purchase of tuberculosis Christmas Seals not only provides I much needed funds to fight the ' nation's number one contagious j disease, but they also provide a very Interesting hobby to collectors col-lectors as well, observed Peterson. Peter-son. "And Utah has a man who Is one of the most authoritative collectors of Christmas Seals to be found in America," Peterson said. He Is Dick L. Green, 221 Brunswick Bruns-wick riaee, Salt Lake City. Mr. Green has been collecting Christ-man Christ-man Seals since 1909 and now has hundreds of Christmas Seals representing each year since the first American Christmas Seal was Issued in 1907. "Mr. Green Is best known nationally na-tionally for having written the first stamp collector's catalog for American Christmas Seals. The catalog describes In detail all the technical variations In each year's Issue of seals," said Peterson. Pet-erson. A sheet of seals Issued 50 years ago are now worth over $500. Some Individual seals are now worth $50 each. Mr. Green also shows In his collection, counterfeit Christmas Seals and oddities that have resulted re-sulted from printing errors. |