Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 128
x containing thestamps. In about a quarterof an hour my ac-quaintance returnedcarrying an old redcardboard box, which originally contained shoes, I should suppose, not defaced, as so many English stamps are afterI placed the box upon the table, and began they have gone through the mails. I knew… … I HE BOATMAN SAW THAT THE BOOK CONTAINED POSTAGE-STAMPS. to examme its contents. The mass of thestamps were of little value, and of no useto me, as I already possessed specimens ofthem. But when I had looked at about halfof the collection my eye detected a stamp of 644 A stamp-collectors…
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