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Show \. \ r . r ' ATT.SN TIOh S 1'1 I:.l HOVNUS Nope , fellovrs , we a r e not talki,ng about. stamp mills , rubbe r stamps or state tax stamps. ·1ve ' e!F to.lking a.;bout the kind th.at you all like to see on those letters you hope to get f r om home ,. The ordinary postage**** stamp . lhany of the stamps on lette r s laying in attics in old boxes a.re valuable but the \ owners of these lett<:3-r1> do not ree..lize this . i::ltanps do not have to be v~ry old to have a good va_lu_e . ~n fact there have been• a couple ..-of. cases Yffuthin the last fifteen. years where some wide - awake*** stamp collecto r has .,cashed in _on an error on tLe part o_f the Government in printing stamps . Ctne of t!·1e most well known cases of this type was the inverted airplare. onthe 192_6 air- Ull;li.l stamp_. A stamp collector went into, an eastern city and purcha _sed £en air - rr,ail s,tamp . He noticed that the air plane on the stamp was . · invorte,d (printed upside down) and wise en ough to buy up all of these sta!n.rn . 1:i.e clea_red a nice profit of ·about ** two- thousand dollars .· on the ,deal. Today One of these stam ps a.re worth a.bout five - hundred do.llars . was. There a.re two or three fellows in camp who collect stamps and have had the opportunity to lffike many additions to their pe r sonal codilections by trading. stamps to otter fellows livhile they a..r:e in :camp . N,any ofthe**** other fellows in camp at this time would like to start collecti ng~stamps if they knew how to start. i::l:tamp collecting is really interesting after you get started . Tr.is is plain to see if you will r~_call some of tLe**** famous personages who are collecting sta.mpa. at thi_s time :such as Presid.. ent. koo·sevel t , King Leopold of Belgium and. ma.ny others . _1.ny of you. fel lows 'who are intecested in starting a stamp ch,b come and see i,i.r . "'.***** Bush.Jran or see me at the office . Page 12. Bddie helch I |
