The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-28


Counterfeiters.
From, the New York Evening Posi-.
rho recent sale in New York of the Hun
20, stamp collection and the large sums
.,id for some of the specimens have
brougbt the subject of philately under dis
c.,ssi,n The Brooklyn Institute of Arts
er5 Sciences is the only educational body
in the world thai recognizes philately (uhe
study collection and preservation of
.,,mns, as a science. Its section on phi
l.t4lv was organized Sept. 16, 1895, by the
members of the Long Island Philatelic So
.is,v of Brooklyn. During the latter part
of March of the next year the section held
its first exhibition of postage and revenue
stamps. This was not the first display
If the kind in the country, but the third,
the others having taken place at the Eden
Iusee in this city, in 1888, and at the Chi
cago Worlds Fair of 1898, respectively
Rut the Brooklyn exhibition was more ex-
tensNe. elaborate and successful than
either of its predecessors, over 10000 per-
sons attending. Thus encouraged the sec
ton will have another and greater exhibit
ton in March of this year, and annually
hereafter.
The Brooklyn Institutes stamp collection
bids fair soon to become the third in i'm
por,lnce in existence. The most valuable
an present is the private collection of NJ.
Philippe Ferran of Paris, worth much
more tnan 81 900 900, and the second is that
of Inc British Museum, which owes its
pace largely 20 the acquisition Off the
splendid collection of the late T. K. Tap
~ ~
agents, whose sole business is to search
for stamps. One he pays 10000 francs
year and the other $4,000 francs. One at
tends exclusively to adhesive stamps, his
colleague 10 stamped envelopes and cards
In the period of little more than year
since the Philatelic section was founded
the Brooklyn Institute, has received sets
Of stamps from about fifty governments
This prompt and generous response is at
trlbuted to the high reputation which the
institute enjoys abroad Among the con-
tributors to this collection are the Unit
ed States, Austria, Hungary, Rumania,
Russia Egypt, British India, New Zea-
land, Queensland, New South Wales, Vic
tora Canada, Newfoundland. the South
African Republic, Siam, Hong Kong, the
Rahamas and ST. Lucia. The American
/ set is complete down to the latest issues
Of Porto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam
The French Minister of Marine and Colo
MES sent the issues of forty colonies. All
Of the British colonies are also represent
ed, the five Australian sets being partic-
uary fine. These stamps are all genuine
and unmarked in the case Of current is
sues, but reprints if the originals are out
Of use, Great Britain is the only conspic-
uous government that has not yet con-
trbuted perhaps because there is no
British precedent for such contribution
But theEnglish stamps will probably be
forthcoming, through the infue2ot of the
Duke Of York. whose good offices the
institute has secured
The highest price ever paid for a sin
Gle United States stamp, was $4,400 This
was the famous Baltimore ten-cent stamp
OF 1915 showing the autograph of Post
master Buchanan of that city Next to
the Baltimore provisional stamp in value
lne g-cent St Louis stamp of the same
class brought So 900. Many rare American
stamps are worth from $500 to $1,000. In
tnis class are the Brattleboro. Vt, Mill
ouly Mass and New Haven, Conn, post
masters stamps, and the Confederate pro-
IsAnals, Beaumont, Uniontown, and
Madison. Any Northumberland Confed-
crate stamp of which no duplicate is
known to exist is worth $500 Those who
nave access to correspondence of dates
between 1913 and 1870 inclusive, have good
chances TO find valuable rarities. 1t is
netler to leave them on the envelopes
what Is known to collectors as the Cobb
corlespondence-the Cobbs being allied
WIN the family of M. B. Lamar, once
resident Of the Republic of Texas, when
lnat eXisted-has proved almost a literal
sUu nine TO the heirs. One heir in Geor-
"a mas made $4,000 by sales of stamps
on these letters, and the supply is not
yet exhausted
some foreign stamps are even more
marketable. Among the rarest are the
V"Ig Issues Of such British possessions
m Mduuuus, Nova Scotia, New Bruins
"IS' Newfoundland and Canada. The
tl stamps of British Guiana and the
+Ia"en'n Islands are practically unob-
",u"ole az any price.
Az .ne Brooklyn Institute recently be-
r que section on Philatey. ii. f. beats
'Ieinlhgton, n. j., exhibited collec-
l Oh confederate stamps conservatively
leo,ts "a. $o0oOO. For a single small col
oo,i1' OF stamps entering into his greater
Of .'on Mr. beats paid $500 a couple
sr ''iS ago Phiiately has evolved to
e, uu extent that the philatelist who
sntis 10 do anything noteworthy must
co,f'5ll1e' and Mr.. beats speciality is
ale stamps. His collection Is
gogaoly HE finest of the kind i'm the
nord although several Furopean collec-
Thu U"d oim closely for the first place
er,ta 'oueeuon consists of genuine Confed-
n, stamps, reprints and counterfeits.
b. FV'o imposition the collector must
ca'aHy familiar with each of the three
vo,, This is largely microscopic
sar, 20 minute is the scrutiny of the
c1ra, expert that as soon as he mas Sc,
ysre.i' rare stamp he begins TO look for
as e,o, OF shades of that same stamp
tcBos as before he sought the par
pao,,. nomination. The tiniest dis
icar, or discoloration makes 1t prac-
terfeis. new stamp to him. The coun-
fair nr., regard the phlatelists as their
Of he ~ and this is easily seen in view
" nom That an alleged stamp actual
cepls Hs' with face value Of only 5
howey1, ' bring $500 or more. AS rule.
take ,ae stamp men are sharp enough
ins no "'e of themselves. As illustrate
y, Elective work incident to philate-
10 .,o,.g,eJor traced a letter addressed
The c9',,ler Stephens, Vice President of
on durir,, .a,acy around the world off and
found il Teen years before he finally
s.amps ,C.ontiederate government made
denomino'iS neets Of forty of a prevailing
United st,t1. ol cents, just as the