The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-21
THEY COME HIGH
Most Valuable Bit of Paper in Whole Wide Word Although Hardly More Than an Inch Square, Its Owner Would Not
 Take $15000 tor>It

served. and of these the unused are
 worth $5.oo0. and the used Q few
 hundred dollars less.
 The cents blue Hawaiian stamp of 1851 Is very valuable on account of its scarcity. and this scarcity is due to the fact that the postoffice at Honolulu burned down shortly after the issue was
 put on sale and the entire stock was
 destroyed by the flames This stamp
 aid of ordinary type and some fancy
 border. The stamp today is worth
 $a.7oo. or 1S5.0oo times its fee value
 before 1t was used.
 Each one of a set of four stamps is-
 sued for use in Meldavia, a province
 considerable worth. Tbese stamps
 were all printed by hand on colored paper and the value today of each. &C., cording to catalogue. Is as follows: 27 paras. printed in black on rose paper. $500.
 H paras. printed in blue on green paper, s10U.
 loo paras. printed in blue on rose paper, $200.
 But the s1 paras. printed in blue on blue paper. Is greater rarity than
 any of it's companions. Catalogues do not generally give its value. but an
 unused copy has sold for $1.75o. Among the rare stamps of the United
 States the provisional issue or the
 postmaster at Millbury, Mass. in 1s47.
 stands near tho top of the list It is Of
 the denomination of cents and pears a portrait of Washington. It was printed on bluish paper and is today reckoned to be worth $1,500. Errors have contributed in no small part to the value of some stamps,
 notable instance being the case of the
 Cape of Good Hope issue of 1861. In
 making up a plate for printing the l.
 penny stamps. careless employe Tn, serted a single 4-penpy stereotype and a 1-penny cut, therefore, got in the 4-penny plate. In consequence, each sheet of the 1-penny contained 4- penny printed in red. while each sheet of the 4-penny contained l-penhy printed in blue Very few of these errors are known. however. The T. penny blue which is the rarer. Is worth about s350. No unused copy is believed to exist. The 3-Ifre 1860 Tuscany stamp Is among the high-priced varieties. an unused copy being worth $500. During the first British occupancy of the Transvaal 1-penny stamp was printed with the word "Transvaa" spelled "Transvral." The error oC lcurred once in each sheet of eighty stamps, and thlS error makes the par Iticular stamp worth about $750. Few stamps of any pretensions to ar tistic designs are yet rated among the rarities. but among this few are the 1859 issues of Ceylon. notably the and S-penny. imperforate. These stamps are regarded as works of art. | The 4-pennv has brought at sale as | high as $650.
 There are great many other stamps of high value. Specimens worth $loo are common among large collections Enhanced value Is often given copies forming a complete set of particular tissue. In some instances used stamps are rated as of greater value than un- used of the same issue. This Is true ! in a marked extent in the case of the old Confederate stamps. the worth ot many of which is increased in the event a genuine cancellation indicates
 1t has passed through the postal ser
 vice of the Confederate Government. l As fondly as the heart of the average
 collector of stamps pines for the regal treasures that represent such great
 values as some of those that have been referred to, he is generally contented