Show rich stamp collection envied by philatelists the most freakish andone of the th most valuable stamp collections collection it in prance france Is pasted on the walls walla of tile the cottage of a priest jn in the life savoy alps collectors who have found tile the stamps have bid fabulous prices for tile the right to steam tile hie collections from the walls but since church property belongs to the french ROV gor ern ment the stamps must remain pasted up hil until they are spoiled pil by time the collection wab started half a century ngo ago by ft a young ji priest who had no other distraction in the mountain village the community Is in nn an hours walk and climb from the nearest rond hut but tha priest received a great quantity of mall mail ana friends sent him stamps to adi add to ills his collection ile he started pasting stamps on the bare walls in place of wallpaper wall paper and then as the collection grew crew he pasted more on top making freak designs out of the issues of countries there are nearly old postage stamps on the four walls of tile the salon of them now rare issues much sought after by collectors the french collection Is particularly rich with copies even of tile famous balloon luil loon stamps issued for air mall by pashas gasbag when parts was being besieged by the lerm hermans lins in the war of 1870 there Is n til triangular angular st stamp from the cape of f good nope some vatican stamps stamp of the first issue before italy took over the territory war stamps from 1870 from alsace and lorraine Lorr alne the first issues of norway tho the famous greek mercury series serles and countless others |