Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1894 — STAMP COLLECTIONS. [ARTICLE]

STAMP COLLECTIONS.

There Ara Three Whleh Are Worth Thousands of Dollars. As Ijigh as 81,000 has been paid for a single postage stamp, writes Rene Bache. The greatest collection in the world is owned by the multi-mil liona re, Ferrary, and is worth s&oo,<l€o amount at auction to-morrow. The collecti ncf Baron Rothschild has been app-. aited it 8200,000. These and one ' «.ihcr, pt tim possession of an English in ill io t'l-e nmed Tapeling, are the titre gi cht collections of the world. It cam', t e s aid that money spent in this way > unproductive, inasmuch as stamps ate continually increasing in valu'. I’are stamps have doubledin value n *he last eight years. There are at preterit about 1,000 stamp met - in t e United States, doing s c 1 a capital all the way from r$lOG to ’IU,OOO. The Russian posttig-*, '■ at e the most beautiful in the -would. Iheiug printed in water-col ,i-n, sh«t they will not wash. The stamp atf V.ivio for £lO is the highest demominatiqp employed for postal service. It is psed to carry gold dust. Same of the Australian stamps have r Hind holes punched .through them .Thia n ean< that,the letters they were i tiaeied to were mailed hy .convicts. Het'goajd is the only cdqntry that pi nt th »denofaina<tions on its stamps in l irngu^gee— English and German. Oishnwe prints its stamps in water r fnm ivory. When wet, the