Stamp Collecting as a Pastime

e of Stamp

collecting, and of the trade that has

is business for ￡25,000, and, still in the prime of life, retired to a snug little villa on the banks of the Thames. The business was converted into a Limited Liability Company, and the Managing Director may be said to be a product of the original business, for it was a present of a guinea packet of Stanley Gibbons's stamps that first whetted his appetite for stamp collecting, and eventually for stamp dealing. Mr. Gibbons had for a great m

rtune. Young Gibbons, amongst his early purchases, bought from a couple of sailors at Plymouth for ￡5 a sackful of triangular Cape of Good Hope stamps, a large proportion being the rare so-called Woodblocks, with many of the Errors described in the list of great rarities in another chapter. Those Errors h

o ￡50, has been largely formed by the fortunate possessor out of stamp

irs of rare Portuguese; but before returning home he decided to treat himself to a trip to Morocco, and during that ill-fated extension of his tour he lost nearly the whole of his patient garnerings of rare Spanish stamps, for during an inland trip

hunter must be equipped with the expert knowledge of the specialist if he would sweep into his net at bargain prices the unsuspected gems to be found now and again in the philatelic mart. Many a keen stamp co

colony for a few of the current stamps issued from his office. The stamps were forwarded and a correspondence ensued. There was eventual

pleasure, for profit, and for romance is as