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Take it easy, friend, and let us study this thing out.Let's find out just what we will be getting for our money. Now take mixtures. These are an accumulation ofstamps, either on or off paper as may be described, whichare put up into large envelopes, cloth bags, or boxes.They are quite often sold by weight. A pound of stampson pieces of paper may run to as many as four thousandstamps. Off paper a pound would run to considerablymore. But just as the name implies, a mixture is a lotof stamps of nondescript determination, many, even most,of which will be duplicates of each other. As a generalrule mixtures contain only the commonest of stamps —the kind you and I receive daily in the mail. Now it iscompletely possible, albeit highly improbable, that youmay find a very valuable stamp in a mixture. I know oneinstance where this actually did happen some years ago.A youngster bought one of those twenty-five-cent mix-tures that were popular at the time, and in it he discovereda two-cent Pan-American 'invert'— which he sold forwell over one thousand dollars! This, so far as I knowis the only such instance on record. However, it is not |
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