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the moment, the catalog price may be considerablyhigher than that at which you purchase the stamps inquestion. It is, in fact, impossible for any catalog togive you the exact price you may pay for any stamp. Thuscatalog prices are merely guides to value. They informyou that, at the time of their publication and in the opin-ion of competent judges, the stamps listed are priced atwhat seemed to be a fair and true estimate of theirvaluation. Every beginner, upon his first reference to a stampcatalog, will discover that no stamp is valued at lessthan two cents. Here, again, we have what appears to bea misleading situation. Every beginner knows full wellthat he can buy a packet of a thousand different stampsfor as little as two dollars — perhaps even for less. Ac-cording to the catalog price, a thousand differentstamps of the very lowest price would be worth twentydollars! And it most certainly would cost you twenty dol-lars if you were to submit a list of one thousand stamps toa dealer and ask him to pick them out of stock. It wouldtake an experienced clerk all day to perform such a chore! |
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