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Journal Note
- Title
- [On stamps and their followers]
- In
- The Philatelic Record
- Imprint
- vol. 13, no. 150, June 1891, pp. 143-44
- Abstract
We can understand a new or unique orchid fetching a large price, for a flower is in itself a thing of beauty. But what is there in an old postage stamp, which has been used, or has ceased to be issued, that men should be willing to give hundreds of pounds for it?