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Interesting Story About A 1977 Stolen Collection...

 
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Posted 04/15/2013   11:10 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add I Brake For Stamps to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/...ps-recovered

Collection only contained 153 stamps and was worth, in 1977, $500,000. Wonder what the collection would have been worth now?


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Posted 04/15/2013   1:01 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Zuzu to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I like the little random blurb at the bottom of the page:

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-- A chauffeur-driven limousine pulled up in front of the Traverse City, Michigan post office and picked up rural letter carrier Morris Kolarik. Associated Press reported that his 7 children, ages 18 through 31, thought of the idea of having their father cover the 65-mile route in style on his last day before retirement.
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Posted 04/15/2013   2:04 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Ryan to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The stamps that were stolen came from the New York Public Library's Benjamin Miller Collection. That collection contains the second known 1868 Z Grill stamp. Imagine if that one had been stolen as well! I wonder if it would have ever been found again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_grill

http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/mill...n/index.html

Ryan
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Posted 04/16/2013   07:03 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add mobilman44 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
As so many of us long time collectors are getting older (or not), I imagine we might find it on ebay very soon.....................
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Posted 04/16/2013   07:30 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add revcollector to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I saw that collection several times back in the days when it was on display in library. Unfortunately it was on sliding panels off in a corner where anyone could have done it harm if they were so inclined. I can still remember the pleasant surprise of discovering it as a teenager.
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Posted 04/16/2013   07:47 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add I_Love_Stamps to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
What about that one that showed up recently on here. A gal was helping another gentleman sell his estate and apparently had an inverted jenny. Just a thought?
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