STAMP COLLECTION
HUGE SUM REALISED. DECEASED AIERCHANT S HOBBY. LONDON, Dec. 1. Thirty-five thousand sterling was paid for a collection of British Empire stamps belonging to Air. 11. I’. Manus, an Amsterdam tobacco merchant, an octogenarian, who died in 1931. lie collected for seventy years. Mauritius varieties realised £4OOO. His early Australian collection realised high prices. Air. Alamis originally scoured the world, resulting in a collection so bulky that lie confined it to tho Empire during the last thirty years.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 286, 4 December 1933, Page 7
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80STAMP COLLECTION Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 286, 4 December 1933, Page 7
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