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Posted 03/12/2019   12:48 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Coastwatcher to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The ultimate horror story....in August 2013 Elena Adams was arrested in New York City for offering her husband's $60,000 stamp collection to an undercover officer posing as a hitman to murder her husband for his life insurance.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elena-...-police-say/
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Posted 03/12/2019   12:58 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add ikeyPikey to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
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Talk about killing two birds with one stone.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey
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Posted 03/14/2019   10:23 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add ClassicPhilatelist to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Wow, ouch.
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Posted 03/14/2019   10:38 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add txstamp to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Hm, that $60,000, was that Scott or Gibbons catalog value?

At, say 15% of cat, that's only $9,000 .... just saying.

If he had been a real hit man, and tried to fence the collection, she may have been the next victim!
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Posted 03/14/2019   4:43 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Coastwatcher to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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Hm, that $60,000, was that Scott or Gibbons catalog value?

At, say 15% of cat, that's only $9,000 .... just saying.

If he had been a real hit man, and tried to fence the collection, she may have been the next victim!

Perhaps not, if the hitman were a collector and didn't intend to sell them. Lawrence Block has written a seies of books, called the John Keller series, about a hitman who is also a stamp collector. I haven't read any yet but plan on checking to see if my local library has any the next time that I'm near it.
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Posted 03/14/2019   4:59 pm  Show Profile Check GeoffHa's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add GeoffHa to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I read heaps of Lawrence Block's Matt Scudder and John Keller books fifteen or twenty years ago, when the remainder bookshop near my office had them all for a pittance. A decent read - and instantly forgettable, of course.
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Posted 03/30/2019   1:21 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add stampfan9 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
A while back I scanned an unprotected stamp which I promptly forgot about and left in the printer. A week or two later I am printing a bill to be paid and voila the stamp is ejected none the worse for wear except that it was now overprinted with a portion of the bill..
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