Evening Times Republican

$4,500 For Stamps.

Scotland's premier earl, Lord Crawford, chieftain of the grand old Scottish clan of Lindsay, has just sold to J. K. Klemann, of New York the celebrated collection of United States stamps formed by his father.

They were contained in fifty-seven volumes and seven portfolios and form a complete history of the stamps of the United States.

The late earl, who started stamp hunting when he was a boy of 12, was wont to boast in his later day, that his American collection was absolutely unique, the prices which he had given for the stamps ranging from 1 cent to $4,500 apiece.

The latter price was paid for some 10-cent stamps issued at the Baltimore postoffice in 1845--that is to say, some time before stamps came into general use in the United States.

Lord Crawford collected the stamps of all countries, and used to declare that the most valuable stamp in his possession was a 2-penny stamp of the Mauritius, bearing the date of 1847, and for which he had paid close to $50,000.

The stamp is blue in color and has marked upon it "postoffice" instead of "post paid." The mistake was corrected in subsequent issues. Hence the value of these early printings. Lord Crawford assured me that only two others of the kind were in existence.-Chicago Herald.