QUAINT BUNGALOW FURNITURE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16847, 25 September 1922, Page 3

QUAINT BUNGALOW FURNITURE.

The prevailing taste these days is undoubtedly for quaint bungalow furniture which is offered at a far lower price than ordinary furniture by the Salisbury Furnishing Co.. 116 Salisbury Street (betweenColnmbo and Victoria Streets). ’Phone 48.3 d. For instance—7 piece Dining Room Suites £l6 10s, Chesterfield Suites in moquette £24 10s, Bedsteads complete in oak £9 lfie.' 9104. It is natural that the recent sale of the very rarest stamp in the world at the record price of £7OOO should have attracted eonsiderable attention and have directed the minds of many persons to that curious and interesting branch of collecting known as philately. Many years ago, when quite a young man, says Dr George O. Williamson, the noted collector, in an article in the London “ Weekly I>isjiatoh, ,f I was intimately acquainted rrith an old lady, several of whose relate vea had gone to New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land in the earliest days of the settlement. She explained to me that slie liad kept all their letters. Each letter was in its original envelope, and there was a large box full of them. Til proof thereof she showed me one envelope on which I recognised two of the very rarest of the largo square New South Wales ■tamps. This, she told me, was by no means the earliest of the letters she had. I did my be«t to explain to her that she had a fortune in that box, but she was indignant at the idea of persons collecting such rubbish* or that she should make money out of a foible so absurd. The next time I alluded to the matter she told me tha* to avoid further trouble she had burned all the envelopes and retained the letters, which, in her opinion, were the only things of interest. So ended her chanoe of a fortune.