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Frow on Old Envelope
It is a well known fact that
Great Britain abolished slav
ery throughout its empire a
good generation before it end
ed in the United States, and so
I was surprised to hear a
friend maintain it existed in
Gambia long after our Civil
War.
Gambia is a British Colony
and Protectorate on the West
African coast. It extends for
200 miles up the Gambia Riv
er from its mouth and for
six miles on either side.
My friend produced an old
letter he had acquired, writ
ten from Gambia in the early
1870's. When I dismissed its
gossip about up-river slave
traffic as nonevidential, he
cited a passage from the En
cyclopedia Britannica that
stated slavery was abolished
in Gambia by ordinance in
1906.
The explanation was that
though slavery had been il
legal in the Crown Colony
along the coast, it had not
been in the Protectorate in
the interior until 1906.
I turned my attention to a
stamp, enclosed with the let
ter and evidently from the
original envelope. It was a
blue, four pence item. Across
the top in block letters was
the word GAMBIA. The main
part of the design consisted
of a circle in the center of
which was a profile portrait
of the young Queen Victoria.
The cancellation was in black
Ink, not heavy.
The stamp is a fairly com
mon one, either with a water
mark or without a watermark
and perforations along the
edges. This one, however, had
neither.
The stamp, cancelled', has a
catalogue value of S45, ac
cording to Scotfs catalogue.
Had it been left on the en
velope, the value would have
been at least twice as much.
In other words, anyone who
finds an old envelope with
a stamp on it should not un
der any circumstances remove
the stamp.
SEWING STANDS ARE TYPICAL IERIOD PIECES
A common piece of furni- arms terminated in six-inch
ture up to the advent of the posts of hickory or some other
sewing machine in the mid- tough wood which supported
1800s was a sewing stand. tht stand.
It is found in various shapes The purpose of the basket
and sizes, but one of the was to hold balls of varn for
easiest to spot, and one of the the housewife as she knitted,
more desirable both from the The top was suitable for use
utilitarian and collector's as a candlestand. Because of
point of view, is one that has its lightness, the piece could
a basket device beneath the be moved about easily as re
top, quired.
One that I saw recently had And since ,t was a weU
. circular top about a foot an turned piece of woodj with a
diameter, centered on a latfee- fine in and d finish on
turned post with a maximum thg t ,t would be suitable
thickness of an inch d a for use on the most formal oc
half A good foot down from casions wfaen there WQuld fae
the top was a funnel-shaped no sewing or knitting,
basket with slatted sides. The o
lip of the basket had a ten- A for the age of the piece,
Inch diameter; the bottom, ont guess is as good as anoth
solid piece of wood through er. It was probably made not
i ti. to 1- 1-
which the post passed, was mucn aner ioau or mucn De-
six inches across.
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fort 1750.
From the bottom of th But because it was typical
post, which did not sach the of that period and was of ex
floor, extended three armsaat cellent craftsmanship, it sold
angles of 120 degrees. Th mdily t $75.
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MANY VALUES IN GLJkli MATCH HOLDERS
For a fult-Y.alf century after
the Philadelphia Centennial
Exposition of 1876 one of the
more common American sou
enir items was the match hold
er. Glass manufacturers turn
ed them out by the thousands
and in multitudes of designs.
As a Result, they form today
one of the more interesting
categories of collectors' items
and one in which there are
many surprising values.
Some weeks ago I saw the
replica of a cannon in green
glass.
The piece, with an over-all
length of bout five inches,
was a miniature of one of
the cannons used on the Con
stitution and other famous
early American ships. As
usual with such pieces, there
was no identifying mark on
it, but very likely it was made
by one of the scores of glas
firms that turned out souv-
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enins for the 1876 Exposition.
0 Usually they are found in
clear glass, occassionally in
blu or amethyst, but very
rarely in green
The 310 price seemed to
mi to be a steep one, but a
glass collector friend of mine
made no attempt to get it at
less. Ha. bought not only that
but n elephant of clear glass
with a howdah on top that
would hold the contents of at
least two penny boxes of
matches. The price for that
was $12.
The price for the elephant
was only average, he said, but
that for the cannon represent
ed a bargain.
He had paid S25 each for
both the blue and amethyst
matchholder cannons he had
acquired and would have been
willing to pay at least that
much for any other color.
(Released by McClure
Newspaper Syndicate)
Students To Leave
For JESSI Program
Eight Medford High school
students planned to leave to
day to attend the Junior En
gineer Science Summer In
stitute at Linfield college, Mc
Minnville, and Oregon State
college, Corvallis.
They are Sandra Hess and
Lynette Shaw, who will at
tend the girls' classes at Lin
field, and Keith Harrison,
Bob Pond, Brian Jefferson,
Frank Peterson, Robert Allen
and Robert Steele, who will
go to OSC. All will be seniors
next year.
Five of the group are at
tending the two-week session
on scholarships provided by
the Rotary and Kiwanis clubs
and the American Institute of
Electrical Engineers.
During the session they will
attend engineering and sci
ence classes taught by college
professors, according to Ryd
er Berg, head of the science
department at Medford High
school.
The institute is sponsored
by Oregon industries to ac
quaint the high school stud
ents with careers in science
and engineering fields.
Governor to Take
Washington Trip
Salem (UPI) Both Gov.
Robert D. Holmes and Mrs.
Cecilia P. Galey, chairman of
the Unemployment Compensa
tion commission, will fly to
Washington, D. C. this week
to give testimony at a con-
gresisonal hearing on pending
social security and unemploy
ment compensation measures.
The Governor said he and
Mrs. Galey were invited to ap
pear at the Ways and Means
committee hearing by its
chairman, Wilbur D. Hills CD-
Ark.) and were scheduled to
present statements Wednes
day,
- Several engagements were
cancelled by the Governor to
make the trip.
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