THE KING OF STAMP OOLLECTORS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8557, 27 July 1889, Page 4

THE KING OF STAMP OOLLECTORS.

Beneath the dusty portals of. .1 little shop m the Strand a. great man, the king of stamp collectors, arr Palmer, dwells. He is (says the Pall Mall Gazette) the arbiter of the stamp collecting world, and makers of forged, stamps tremble at his twinkling black eyes. The greatest amateur stamp collectors in the world are the son of the King of Siam, a son ■S■ « \.^ kef£ f Edlnbui-gb. and the Paris Rothschild Young lordlings and barristers are also bitten with the craze. Mr Palmer has over 1,000,000 of forged stamps, and of course many genuine ones. Bat he is notorious as the Nemesis of the forger He bought 150 from a man the other day for a shilling. The vendor said he had found them in a waste paper warehouse. Mr Palmer; has old stamps he values at £60,000. H6 has been a collector for 30 years. Here are a few prices. An 1847 stamp with the postal mark will fetch £75. The sums are for the series:—Four 1850 British Guiana, £100----three 1856 British Guiana, £150; two 1880* Bulgarian post cards, £35 ; two 1847 Mauritius, £200; seven of Natal's first issue, £100----four 1852 Sandwich Islands^ £200 Those are some of the highest prices. There are others which fetch from £2 to £10 and uv wards each. Mr Palmer keeps a stamp exchange, acd he will buy a house or a horse or a piano or a steam launch with stamps ' Fancy exchanging a 200-guinea Dark hack for a stamp which the owner thought dear when he paid a few pence for it. But collectors are a race apart. They are dead to the things of this world when the fever is on. them. There is nothing too valuable to exchange for their hobby.

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