LARGEST STAMP COLLECTOR

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1680, 11 May 1904, Page 46 (Supplement)

LARGEST STAMP COLLECTOR

The greatefet stamp collection in the world is that of Herr Philip von Ferrary. He started collecting in the sixties, and is believed to have spent nearly a quarter of a million in the formation of tire collection, and employs two secretaries to look after it. Herr Ferrary includes in his collection a used and an unused specimen of each stamp. Some of his purchases have been notable. The collection

of Sir Daniel Cooper (a founder and the first president of the Philatelic Society) was acquired by Herr Ferrary in 1878 for ,£3OOO. Judge Philbrick, also a president of the Philatelic Society, whose fine collection comprised many of the greatest rarities,, disposed of his albums in 1882 to Ferrary for ABOOO. A few of the chief gems of the Ferrary collection are the single known specimens of the circular two cents. British Guiana of 1856. three copies of the circular two cents. British Guiana of 1850, and four post-office Mauritius stamps.