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Show TRICKED THE STAMP FIEND. Mean Trick Played by Joker on En-thuilastlc En-thuilastlc Collector. Stamp collector arc tit-lighted when they Heciirc a Hpcrlinen which was Issued Is-sued before Mime mistake In printing was detected. Dining tint Buffalo ex-Position ex-Position the gov eminent Issued a stump to commemorate tlu occasion which depleted the Kiuplrc Kxpress tinln. A practical Joker cut out the central part of one of tho stamps which contained the train and carefully care-fully replaced It so that the train was In an upsldedown position. This he pasted on an en elope and mulled It to a friend who was a rabid collector. The practiced eye of the stamp (lend at once dlscou-rcd the misplaced position po-sition of the train, but did not notlco the deception, and the collector wns almost wild with o until he offered It for sale, when he was Informed that It was not a ".are" but n "cut-out" stamp he preserved. |