Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1893 — The Stamp Collecting Hobby. [ARTICLE]

The Stamp Collecting Hobby.

The expenses and eccentricities of the •tamp collecting hobby were illustrated at the Portland, Me., postoffice the other day, in the reoeipt of a registered letter bearing a postage stamp of the four-dollar denomination. The fees due on the letter only called for ten cents postage, and the reason for using so oostly a stamp was that cancelled it is of much greater value to the collector than an uncancelled one, and he took this method of attaining his end. It is not an uncommon thing for a collector thus to use a rare and costly stamp on an ordinary letter, registering the letter as a safeguard against its going astray.— [Now York Sun.