SB MAIL TRIBUNI, Uadfonf, Oregon, Sunday, Dacamber 21, 19S8
Med Treasure
Graf Zeppelin Stamps
Now Collector's Item
If you happen to be one of
the fortunate people who
bought or acquired one or
more of the Graf Zeppelin
stamps our government
brought out in 1930, you had
better hang on to it. The rate
at which the value rises makes
it one of the better invest
ments. The value soared so be
use the issue proved to be
one of the most unpopular our
government ever put out.
The stamps, issued to pay
for mail carried by the Zep
pelin on its flight from Ger
many to the United States
and back, via Spain and Bra
zil, were sold only during May
and June. Over 1,000,000
stamps in each of the three
values had been printed, but
when they were withdrawn
from sale on June 30, over
80 per cent of each were still
unsold and were subsequently
destroyed.
The three denominations
are: 65c green, $1.25 yellow
brown and $2.60 blue. They
carry the legend "Graf Zep
pelin Europe-Pan American
Flight United States Post
age," and each has a different
picture of the huge dirigible.
What caused the stamps to
be so unpopular is something
of a mystery. It couldn't have
been lack of collectors, be
cause proportionately there
were very, nearly as many in
the country then as there are
today. It is also unlikely that
it was due to political feel
ing. Hitler had not yet come
to power and the scars of
World War I were fairly well
healed.
In any event, so few of the
stamps found their way into
the hands of collectors that
even an unused 65c one com
mands a price today of $35,
and a used one, not on its
original cover, has a price
tag of $20.
As for those fortunate in
dividuals with the foresight
to buy these stamps as issued
in sheets of 50, they are real
ly in a position to cash in.
The last quotation I saw on a
sheet of the $2.60 denomin
ation, representing an origin
al outlay of $130, was $3,700.
However, the price of the in
dividual stamp has risen so
that the true value of such a
sheet would be nearer $4,000.
Seaton Sees Three Revolutions Necessary for Republican Party
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A. Kobt Smith
HULL'S OAK TREE SHILLINGS AMONG FIRST MINTED
Most people have heard of
the pine tree shilling, but
not so many know there are
also "oak tree" and "willow
tree" shillings the latter
being by far the more valu
able. All of them were made in
the first mint in North Ameri
ca which was operated in the
rear of the home of one John
Hull, at Boston, Mass.
Though any of these coins
one is likely to see looks like
a strictly amateur production,
that isn't due to Hull. Instead,
It is due to the fact many
of our Puritan ancestors were
not above clipping off the
edges of the silver coins be
fore attempting to pass them
on at face value.
Hull himself was well paid.
The colonial government al
lowed him to keep every 20th
coin he produced. They want
ed to stimulate his produc
tion, and they certainly suc
ceeded. He wouldn't even
bother to make new dies,
which is why all his coins
have the same date, 1652.
When they finally tried to
buy back his contract, he re
fused. The oak tree shilling, as he
stamped it out and the fol
lowing is substantially true
of the others, also had a
beaded circle on the face, be
tween the circles was the leg
end MASATHUSETS . IN .
The oak tree was in the inner
circle, at the center. The leg
end on the reverse side was
NEW ENGLAND. AN . DOM .
In the center was the date
1652 and the Roman numeral
XII.
On most of these coins
found today the outer circle
is completely missing, having
been clipped off. Nonetheless,
don't be unhappy if you come
across one in even that condi
tion. So long as it is recog
nizable, it is a worth - while
find.
Either the pine or oak tree
shillings would be worth at
least $25 in almost any con
dition, and the one carrying
a willow tree would be worth
probably ten times as much.
. ENGLISH POET'S WORK ON BLAKE IS SOUGHT-AFTER
Algernon Charles Swine
burne was one of the great
est English poets, but he also
had a high reputation as a
critic, and so some of his
prose writings are valuable,
too.
There are many of them,
and among the most inter
esting if not the most valu
able, from a collector's view
point, is his book, "William
Blake, a Critical Study."
The book, which contains
Illustrations taken from
Blake's designs in facsimile,
was published in London in
1867. The first issue was lim
ited to six copies, but the
three subsequent issues, all in
the same year, were in a suf
ficient number to make the
work fairly common. The
three can be distinguished
from each other by the title
of a vignette that appears on
the title page. In the second.
It is "Ithuriel"; the third,.
"Zamiel"; the fourth, "Going
to and From the Earth."
Copies of the four issues
may be found in either a cloth
or leather binding. All con
tain 304 pages.
The value of the book is
due nearly as much to Blake
as it is to Swineburne. Blake,
whether he is generally cred
ited with it or not, was the
father of free verse. He wrote
reams of it. In addition, he
was a mystic of extrordinary
powers, an artist of great
ability, and, for a time at
least, was such an advanced
political thinker that he was
in great danger of being im
prisoned. As to the price such a book
would bring, I have seen a
copy of the third issue, in a
cloth binding and in excellent
condition, sell for $30. How
ever, since copies of even the
second edition, published in
1868, have sold for up to $35
in recent years, it is quite
probable that a higher price
would be realized today.
No copy of the first issue,
so far as I know, have ever
gone on the market.
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By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Washington
Correspondent
Washington - If Secretary
of Interior Fred A. Seaton
was disheartened b y the
Title landslide
A I which follow
ed his person
al campaign
ing for Re
publicans in
the western
states and Al
aska this fall,
he showed no
sign of it in
his first political speech since
the election.
In a "let's bind up our
wounds" sort of speech to
Western Republicans meeting
in Honolulu last week end,
Seaton said the GOP must ac
complish three revolutions in
the next 19 months if it is to
make a comeback in the elec
tions of 1960 which will de
cide the presidency.
Seaton cited a Gallup poll,
showing that if all Americans
were now to register as vot
ers, 54 per cent would line up
as Democrcats and only 36
per cent as Republicans. This
indicated that "a split party is
a luxury only Democrats can
occasionally afford. We Re
publicans can't afford it at
all. In our party today a wing
doesn't have a prayer, much
less any chance of victory."
Revolutionize Thinking
Seaton's "three revolutions"
were:
1. We have to revolution
ize our thinking about politics
and campaigning.
To some Republicans, "pol
itics is a four-letter word."
Some will vote Republican,
but they "won't run, work,
contribute or sometimes even
talk Republican." Democrats
learned long ago that elec
tions aren't won in the last
four weeks before the election
and Republicans "shbuld have
learned it the hard way by
now."
"Looking to 1960, we should
be determined that everyone
who shares our beliefs about
government get into politics
up to the chin," said Seaton.
He called for recruiting of the
most capable and articulate
candidates for all top offices,
citing such examples of this as
Oregon's Gov.-elect Mark Hat
field and New York's Gov.
elect Nelson Rockefeller.
2. The second "much-needed
Republican revolution is
the shift from negative to
positive thought, from re
verse to forward drive."
Seaton said the Eisenhower
administration has succeeded
in maintaining the peace,
keeping the nation's defense
strong, . providing Americans
with both a tax cut and a
higher than ever standard of
living.
"Yet in 'political debate,
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The Lone Pine Merry Maids
met at the home of Mrs. Mil
dred Edwards Dec. 6. They
started to make monkeys for
the children at the Fairview
home. On Dec. 8 Patty Jones,
Beverly Jones, Ilene Mitchell,
and Teresa Edwards were on
television. They showed how
to make a toy horse and a ball
representing a doll's head.
They also showed how to
make rattles and can building
blocks for younger children.
Linda Betz,
Reporter.
Elk-Trail Forestry Squirrels
The meeting ras held at
the home of Lois Rogers on
Dec. 10. Seven members were
present.
Roll call topic was on how
and where to cut Christmas
trees.
The program for the year
was planned. For recreation
we opened our Christmas
gifts and played a game led
by Tommy and Billy Lawson.
Lois Rogers served refresh
ments. Margaret Hanson,
Reporter
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what happens? Time and
again we Republicans find
ourselves cleverly maneuver
ed into seemingly supporting
reaction and negation because
of our necessary and valid re
sistance to the wild, even if
politically appealing, propos
als of the opposition," Seaton
said.
Democrats are for more of
everything airport money,
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ports and at the same time
want lower taxes and lower
interest rates, he charged, and
called this program "a
phony." But he said Republi
cans have failed to prove .to
the voters that it is a phony.
3. The GOP must show that
when it stands for preserving
the value of the dollar, this
is the best way of being for
the man including the wage
earner, the farmer, the house
wife and their children.
"What good are wage or
profit rises if offset by price
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DIAMONDS BY
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Authorized Member of The
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the fiancee when she was given
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of the Republican party as the
part of the American people
- all 175 million of them. You
and I know that the Republi
can party is not, and never
will be, a kept political party.
Seaton recalled that the
Conservative party in Eng
land was voted out of office
by over '2,000,000 votes in
1945 after the war. But Wins
ton Churchill called on Lord
Woolton to rebuild the party.
So in 1951 the Conservatives
returned, and are still In po
er in Britain.
"We can and must put fighl
and heart into our party," de
clared Seaton. "Once we've
accomplished that, we will
win."
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