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Collectors have queer fancies, and I even the ardour with which Mrs. Mary WrigrTt, of Perry, New York State, who in the course of a long life has accumulated 14,882 buttons, all different, seems a trifle more reasonable than the passion displayed by a French banker who, on his death a few years ago, left a collection of 63,000 cigar, bands, each differing in some particulars from all the others, says the "Manchester Guardian." The collection represented fifty years of cigar-smoking—and a different brand of cigar every time —and he was so proud of his treasures that he had them systematically arranged in specially-constructed cabinets. He left the collection to his children, but as none of them shared his hobby it was decided to sell the bands. When put up for auction the whole lot realised twenty-five francs. No doubt the heirs would have greatly preferred the cost of the cigars from which the bands derived.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 145, 22 June 1938, Page 5
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159ENDING IN SMOKE Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 145, 22 June 1938, Page 5
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