Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-08-26
CANCELLED STAMPS.
If Any One Has Three or Four Millions He
Can ind IA Coed Market for Them.

Can ind Coed Market for Them.
Has any one 900, 000 stamps or SOC, 900
or 100. 900? The man who has long been
wanted by people who have saved up
stamps and who have jealously guarded
them for years has been found. He &C
tually buys Cancelled stamps by the mill
ion or hundred thousand. This cheerful
news is given for the benefit of those
who have cried out for information from
time to time. But the man who buys
them does not expect to see them re-
deemed, nor is he trying to relieve the
sufferings of those who have carefully
boarded the green 'uns," the three cent
stamp and the five cent stamp and the
stamp of all kinds.
But the seekers of wealth by stamp
selling are not likely to acquire great
fortunes in this way. If they have only
collected few thousand, or even 100,-
900, they would better become discour
aged and give it up, for the wholesale
market price of Cancelled postage stamps
(unless for some particular reason they
are extrinsically more valuable) is 500
a million, And that is $40 hundred
thousand.
"Why do | buy postage stamps?" said
G. B. Calman, of No. 229 Pearl street, to
Tribune reporter. why, to sell them,
of course"
"Who wants them?'
"If people did not want them GER.
tainly should not buy them"
give one instance Of a reasonable de-
mand for them"
"Well, there's big cigarette company
which has Cancelled stamp on picture
! which is given away with every box Of
cigarettes. The company uses millions
| of them"
Another"
| "a certain publication gives a STAMP
| book for SO many coupons, the coupons
| going with the paper
"What kind of stamps do you buy?"
"All kinds"
"But who wants common green tive
cent stamps? They are not rare
"Well, they are less common in West
ern Bulgaria than in New York city.
buy stamps in all parts of Europe ant
bring them to America, and | shil
American stamps to all parts of Europe.
"How many stamps do you buy
year,"
Il bought over 50,000,00 last year
For fifteen years l have averaged abou
10000 600
"What becomes of them?"
"Think of all the shops where stamp
are sold. A great many people max
collections and the stamps are all gath
cred for them in this way"
"What do you pay for stamps?"
"One hundred dollars for 1000, 900 @
any kind. | don't care what they are
will take them But pay great dea
more for rare ones, of course. Some
times people find old stamps which hav
been lying around for years. Frequent
they are very valuable"
Suppose you were to get an order t.
day for 0,000 900, could you fill it?''
YES"
Would you buy as many?'
Eyes"
"How do you handle them?"
"Those packing cases there are full {
than. You see the stamps are assorte
and put up in envelopes and boxed fc
shipment"
ut would not pay, would it, to couI
100000 two cent stamps; how do yc
manage that?"
1--WE can estimate them almost pr
cisely by weight"
80 cancelled stamps really have
market value:"
''If they did not, as l said before,
should not buy them, Bring round
100000 or 1000, 900 in boxes or bale
and see for yourself There are fe
things in these days that are allowed
go to waste" And he picked up pac
age of foreign stamps and gave them
the reporter as a nest egg.-New Yol
| Trihupa