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Show Stamps by the Ton. Though stamps are not usually sold by weight, a ton from tho Island of Cypress wns recently bought by a Ixindon firm dealing in this commodity. commod-ity. For a timo Diltlsh stamps with an appropriate sui charge wero In ttso there, but owing to change In tho currency cur-rency from penco to piastres theso became obsolete. Tho firm of Stanley Stan-ley Gibbons offered $4,000 for thoso left over. Thero wero six or seven million stamps In the lot and thoy weighed a ton. Now York Herald. |