"Unhinged" Stamps
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Discussions
continually arise over
the "greater value" of mint stamps that are preserved
unhinged. The
Caspary collection will likely realize a greater sum of money than any
collection
offered for sale in the past. The stamps are bringing
extraordinarly
high prices and in the case of his unused stamps none of the buyers
apparently pay any attention to the "hinging" situation.
Caspary hinged all of
his stamps and some of them several times. -
George B. Sloane
Sloane's Column Stamps September 29, 1956 Posted July 29, 1999 Editor's Note: Hinging was common in the old time collections which held the finest stamps thus it is unusual for such stamps to be unhinged. Index of 508 Notes from the Past Note: If the link isn't returned the first try, try again. Comments? Send me an e-mail |