F. Nicoll.—The prices quoted in this column are always those at which the stamps can be bought of dealers. What dealers pay I do not know.
L. Perkins.—There are several dies of the 1861 3c. envelope stamp. Only a few collectors care for these slight varieties of envelopes.
F. A. Childs.—No value except as bullion.
M. R. Wise.—The 5c. and 10c. Colombian envelopes can be bought of dealers for 15c. and 25c. respectively; if used, for about half these amounts.
C. S.—The coin can be bought of dealers at 75c.
Mrs. W. T. Woods.—We neither sell nor buy stamps or coins.
E. C. Wood, 156 School Lane, Germantown, Pa.—No premium on the coins to sell, but dealers charge a premium on all the coins sold by them, whether rare or common. Compound perforations are those stamps perforated on different scales on two or more sides; for instance, many of the Swedish Official stamps are perforated top and bottom 13½, sides 14.
J. N. Carter.—Your coin is Spanish, and is worth bullion only. Many millions of them were used throughout this country up to 1834, and in the South up to 1861.
B. W. Leavitt.—Your three stamps are U.S. Revenues. All common.
H. M. Robinson.—No premium on the 1857 U.S.
R. I. P.—They are all war tokens issued in 1862 and 1863. Very interesting and worth collecting, but they have no monetary value.
W. W. S.—The quarter, 1892, can be bought of dealers for 50c.
H. S. Johnson.—Your stamps are catalogued, Bavaria, 1 kr., yellow, 5c.; Greece, 1 lept., brown, 5c.; New South Wales, 8d., yellow, surcharged O.S. in red, $4.50; Hawaii, 5c., blue, 30c.; Bavaria, 5 pf., red, is a revenue stamp.
T. L. Watkins.—There are about five hundred different "Private Proprietary" stamps issued by the U.S. for revenue purposes. Some of them are very common, others very rare. They are printed on four varieties of paper, viz.: Old, silk, pink, and water-marked. Some of the stamps were issued both perforated and unperforated.
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