“I should think it would be, when you buy them in thousand dollar lots.”
“Well, that does seem like a large amount of stamps, but I know of one lot—a ten thousand dollar lot—that I could buy within an hour, if I had the money to put into them.”
“You could never get rid of so many, Woodman,” said the cashier, surprised at the broker’s statement.
“Oh, yes, I could work them off sooner or later, and would get par for most of them too.”
“How do you do it?”
“I put them up in small lots of fifty cents and a dollar, and upwards, and sell them to my customers. Of course, when I buy big lots I do a little wholesaling, but I put away all I cannot sell at the time.”
“They are sure to go sooner or later, I suppose,” said the cashier.
“Oh, yes, sure to sell. During the summer months very few stamps come into the market.”
“And this gives you an opportunity to work off your surplus stock?”