Medford mail tribune., May 15, 1955, Image 23

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Med Treasure
Nazi Stamps Worthless
Remnants of Hitler Era
Jim picked up a dozen pages
from the loose-leaf stamp album
he had just acquired as part of
collection he had paid $200 for,
glanced at them briefly and tore
them in half.
"Are you crazv?" I asked.
"Not at all," he said. "Take
'em if you want 'em, but I don't
think you will."
"I don't get it," I said. "This
looks as if it might be a complete
collection of everything issued
by the Third Reich."
"I think it is," Jim replied.
"Well, it was a complete collec
tion, complete in the sense that
every space was filled which the
Scott catalogue shows, and when
I had got it reassembled, Jim
very graciously offered to supply
me with fresh copies of the 30 to
40 stamps that had been ripped
in the tearing.
"Help yourself," he said, toss
ing me a large envelope marked
Hitler's Germany.
"It's easy to see that you
haven't paid much attention to
the catalogue prices of the Third
Reich stamps. Suppose you run
through the catalogue," Jim said.
I opened the big book he handed
me and spent a good 15 minutes
going through it. When I had
finished, I quietly picked up the
torn pages I had rescued and
dropped them back in the waste
basket. Of the 55 different types of
stamps put out by Germany un
der the Hitler regime, starting
from the day back in 1932 when
the Swastika was first used as a
watermark on stamps, there were
only 10 items with a catalogue
value of 75 cents or better.
Under the circumstances, it
didn't seem worthwhile to both
er with the most valuable a 25
pfenning, ultramarine blue num
ber with a bust of Hindenburg on
it, listed as worth all of $2.75.
SHEFFIELD PLATE DIED WITH ADVENT OF
ELECTROPLATING
"This isn't quite what I want,"
aid Jim, putting the metal box
back on the counter. "Do you
have anything smaller?"
As the proprietor stepped into
the next room, Jim bent swiftly
forward, breathed lightly on the
lid of the box and straightened
up quickly as the owner re
turned with a smaller one.
- "Maybe this is better," he
aid, setting it before us. "It's
not plated. Real sterling. See,"
and he turned the box upside
down to point out the sterling
mark. "Of course, I've got to ask
more money for it. Twenty-five
dollars instead of $10.
It didn't take Jim long to make
up his mind. In a matter of min
utes we were sauntering out to
the street when Jim immediately
broke into a fast walk towards
the end of the block.
A few minutes later he re
moved the box from his shop
ping bag and set it on the table
between us.
It was about a foot long, nine
or 10 inches wide and a little
over six inches high. There were
no maker's marks on the bottom,
and here and there you could see
where the silver had been rubbed
or worn through to the copper
underneath. So far as I was con
cerned, it was undoubtedly a
fairly early electroplating job.
Say about 1870.
When I said so, Jim merely
smiled.
"That's what the proprietor
thought," he said, "but actually
this is an excellent example of
genuine Sheffield plate of about
1810 to 1915, an art which died
with electroplating's advent in
the 1840's."
I wanted to know how he
could tell, since there wasn't a
maker's mark on it. The answer
was surprisingly simple: (1)
About 85 per cent of the Shef
field plate makers omitted marks
primarily as a means of avoiding
trouble with the silversmiths
who resented their competition.
(2) About 1785, some plate mak
ers began using solid silver for
the edges where the greatest
wear occurs. (3) About 1810,
when plate was becoming fash
ionable among the nobility, the
makers began letting in a solid
silver shield for monograms, be
cause if they had engraved on
the plated area they would have
cut through to the copper.
"The moisture from your
breath lets you see the solid sil
ver shield and makes the silver
edges look like seams against
the plate," Jim said.
And then, patting the box
lightly on the lid, "I tried to buy
one something like this last year,
but the owner rightly wanted
$150 for it, which wasn't a bad
price even at that."
They'll Do It Every Time
By Jimmy Hatlo
RARE 3-GENT-COINS FOUND IN PICTURE FRAME
"It wasn't wholly by accident
that I got them." Cousin Sarah
nodded toward the picture frame
that contained the 25 nickel
three-cent pieces put out from
1865 to 1889.
"Well," resumed Cousin Sarah,
"when I picked this frame up at
an auction to examine the pic
ture I was so astonished at the
heaviness that I couldn't account
for it unless there was a lot of
metal in it somewhere.
"Knowing that sometimes peo
ple conceal precious things in
picture frames, I ran my fingers
lightly over the canvas and de
tected here and there little de
pressions with something hard
In them.
"That was enough for me. I
thought sure that someone had
hidden gold coins there, so when
the bidding opened I promptly
offered $20."
"A dealer, thinking it might
be a piece by some famous art
ist, ran it up to $75 before he de
cided that I was just bidding for
sentimental reasons, or because
I had been, carried away by the
excitement of the auction."
"But it was such an awful let
down to find they were only
three-cent pieces, and not even
silver ones at that," she said.
"You got a picture you liked
and these coins must be worth
quite a bit. They seem to be in
excellent shape," I told her.
"They most certainly are,"
Cousin Sarah replied. "As a mat
ter of fact, it is an excellent col
lection. Why, the 1877 piece is
worth $75 by itself, and I have
a standing offer of $350 for the
collection any day I want to sell
it. But just think! Supose they
had been $5 gold pieces!"
And Cousin Sarah began to
fan herself vigorously, beating
the air as if to retaliate on fate
for not having done her a good
enough turn.
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TO ALL GROWERS Of TALL OR
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TAKE NOTICE -that a meeting of
growers of pears in the above named
District, for the purpose of electing
two nominees for a grower member,
two nominees for an alternate grower
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Winter Nelis. Doyenne du Cornice,
Beurre Easter, and Beurre Clairgeau
varieties of pears grown in the states
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1955. at 303 West 5th St.. in the Citv
of Medford, County of Jackson. State
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Each grower of pears of the afore
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DATED: May 11. 1955.
William J. Beal, early agri
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State college, was the first to
cross-fertilize corn, ushering in
hybrid corn. .
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SCIENCE AT WORK
By DELOS SMITH
United Press Science Editoi
New York (U.R) When
the patient said he had an iden
tical twin who was in excellent
health. A. G. Beckett, a British
physician, embarked oh a new
phase in the study of muscular
dystrophy.
The 45-year-old farm laborer
before him was in the advanced
stage of this terrible, wasting dis
ease for which there now is no
cure.
For almost 100 years science
has regarded it as a hereditary
disease. Therefore, if one of iden
tical twins was so far gone as
this one was, the other should
be far gone, too since the in
heritance of identical twins is
identical.
Beckett went out looking for
the other twin. Just as his physi
cally helpless brother had said,
he seemed in perfect health,
working daily on the farm and
complaining about little, cer
tainly not about his muscles.
Yet his appearnce of health
had to be deceptive otherwise
the long-accepted hereditary the
ory of muscular dystrophy would
be in for a very rough challenge.
Only Legs Affected
Beckett got the man's clothes
off and went over him, and found
out that the theoretically im
possible still was impossible. The
man was not perfectly healthy
he had muscular dystrophy.
It was in his legs, just as it
was in his helpless brother's
legs. But it was only in his legs;
his brother's shoulders and arms
were wasted, as well as his legs.
The challenge to the theory
still existed because if their in
heritance was identical, then
how come one twin had been hit
so hard and the other had been
hit so lightly he didn't know he
was hit?
Beckett's first suspicion was
that they might not be identical
but fraternal twins, in which
case their inheritances could
vary as much as do the inheri
tances of single-birth brothers
and sisters.
Checking into that possibility,
he found that as children they
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had been indistinguishable. Even
as 45-year-old men, their heights
varied only a half inch, their
skull measurements by only a
quarter of an inch and both had
the same hair and eye color.
He compared their blood
types, and found them identical
not only for the main groups
of blood constituents but for the
sub-groups of those groups. Even
more striking were their finger
prints which are not identical
even in identical twins: But in
these twins, twin A had the ulnar
loop on all fingers except the
left forefinger, which had the
radial loop; and twin B had the
ulnar loop on all fingers except
the left forefinger, which had the
radial loop.
Beckett was forced to believe
that they were identical twins all
right. One more possibility re
mained. The literature which
is what doctors call the accumu
lated knowledge of the ages
about any given subject con
tained a few suggestions that
environmental stress might in
fluence the severity of the dis
ease. He found that the brothers had
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A Nichol's Worth of . . .
Comment On This and That
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
United Preu Feetvro Writs
rHarman Nichols
Washington (U.P.) There
doesn't seem to be any sense in
making a family car that will
go 120 miles .' ' "yy
an hour when
there's no pub
lic highway In
the country
that can handle
much more
than half that
speed in safety.
At least that
is the thinking"
of Andrew J,
Sordoni, the
new president
of the American Automobile As
sociation. '
"We have cars that will go
120 miles an hour," he said in
an interview. "But where are
they going while going? They
are going to the court house to
answer a charge or maybe to
meet their maker."
Not For Speed
A car today with 200-300
horsepower working for it is
fine, according to the new leader
of the AAA. But, he warns that
the power is not for speed alone;
mostly for performance on the
road.
"It is for the abusers, not the
common users that get in trou
ble," he warned.
Sordoni reminded that last
year 36,300 persons lost their
lives on the nation's highways.
Another 1,250,000 were .hurt.l
some of them maimed for life.
"Statistics don't mean very
much, unless you analyze them,!'
the AAA leader said. "What you
have to remember is that acci
dents occur more frequently in
winter. A lot of people don't
realize that. But driving condi
tions are worse in Icy weather."
Foreign Clubs
I fell to talking with Sordoni
while a group of foreign auto
mobile clubs were in our town.
Comte H. de Liedekerke Beau
fort presently is the head of the
oldest auto club in the world.
There are no speed limits, hard
ly, in most of Southern France,
according to the man with the
long name.
"It is no use," he said, "you
can't go too fast, anyhow."
Incidentally on some of the
Veterans Officials
Back From Conference
Charles Holbrook, county vet
erans service officer, and Eu
gene K. Ricker, manager of the
Veterans Administration Domi
ciliary at Comp White, returned
last week from Portland where
they attended the 16th semi
annual conference for county
service officers.
Discussions covered various
phases of veterans service work,
Holbrook reported, with talks by
experts in the fields.
main streets in Paris the people
walk in the streets and the little
Renaults and other midget cars
run along the sidewalks. It's safer
that way, all around.
been born and brought up on a
farm and had been farm laborers
all their lives. Nothing had hap
pened to one that hadn't happen
ed to the other.
Muscular dystrophy is puzz
ling enough without another puz
zling aspect being added. How
ever, Beckett was forced to end
his report in the British Medical
Journal with this sentence: "No
explanation can be given."
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