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Show Mlllbury Stamp I Worth 1,200. Onu postuKn atamp. Issued orlKlnaf ly from a small Massachusetts poat. office, but selling; now at ll.ilK), aflurda an example of great Interest to pep sons not versed In stump collecting; ol tho values ploced by collcctora on ihoiio liny pieces of colored pupur, official offi-cial receipts, merely, for money paid for tho carrying of a letter. It Is known as tha Mlllbury stamp, having been Issued originally by th pustmaster at Mlllbury, Mass., Col, i Asa If. Waters, prior to the general Issuo of stamps In 1S4T, and It Is clussed as a "postmaster's s trims.4 . Only seventeen specimens of It aro known to be In existence. ) Col. Wnter was postmaster at Mill f bury from Jan. 18, 18M, to November, I Istlt. In that period the stamp wu i Issued. ' I, |