ROOMS PAPERED WITH STAMPS.
149,242 COLLECTED BY PRIEST. With '149,242 postage stamps, representing nearly every nation, the Rev. A. Bucci, of Burbank, California, has papered two rooms of his house. Father Bucci took more than 30 years to collect the stamps, says the "Daily Chronicle." On one of the ceilings is a design of the Stars and Stripes, with Italian stamps forming the blue field, and American two-cent stamps supplying the red stripes. The brown staff upholding the banner consists of Canadian stamps, and the white stripes of the flag are formed by the strips of bare ceiling remaining after Father Bucci completed his "paperhanging."
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 171, 21 July 1924, Page 8
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105ROOMS PAPERED WITH STAMPS. Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 171, 21 July 1924, Page 8
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