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14A MAIL TRIBUNE, Mtdfoni, Oregon, Sunday, January 18, 1959 Buried Treasure by frfafy, Cyprus Problem Will Increase Stamp Value Most Greeks are in favor green color. Across the top T:nnSi"-havin the Brit- was the word CYPRUS. Along Ish turn over the Island of the bottomwas the denomina Cyprus to the Kingdom of on, four piastres. In the cen- Greece. In fact, many of them ter was a picture of Queen Victoria. Across the face of the stamp were the inked initials "J.A.B." I assumed that the initials meant that the stamp had been on a letter which had been hand-cancelled, but the owner assured me otherwise According to Scott's cata logue, he said, they were the initials of a postmaster, but they merely meant that the stamp had been used for ac counting purposes in the post al system the British had set up for the island The catalogue value of the stamp was given as $16.50 and I pointed that out to him. "I know," he said. "But obviously locally the demand has risen during the past year. I could have bought one a year ago for $15, but thought the price too high. So it seems better -to buy now rather than wait longer." BUTTON CHARM STRING RECALLS VICTORIAN AGE are quite heated up about it, and so I was a little surprised recently to see a Greek friend of mine pay $20 for a British tamp issued for the colony of Cyprus. "Enosis," he said, "we'll probably get it eventually After all, the British already offered us Cyprus once, back In 1915. Meanwhile, now's a good time to buy Cyprus stamps." His reasoning was that in creased news prominence for small countries tend to in crease the values of their stamps by bringing them more forcefully to the attention of the stamp collecting public. He cited the $20 price he had paid as an illustration. The stamp was issued in 1881, three years after -the British took the island over from the Turks. It was olive BLM Calls for Timber Sale Bids The bureau of land manage ment will open bids at 10:30 a.m. Feb. 12 in Medford on an estimated 1,872,000 board feet of green timber on O and C lands in Jackson county. The timber is in the Trail Creek district. The appraised price is $40, 577.50 for the timber, the BLM said. An area of about 84 acres may be clear cut in the dis trict, and about 116 acres partial cut. Access to the con tract area is provided by state highway 227 and a road to be constructed by the BLM and maintained by the contractor. Timber included in the sale include 1,325,000 board feet of Douglas fir, 139,000 board feet of Ponderosa pine, 298,- 000 board feet of sugar pine, 78,000 board feet of incense $100,000 Suit Filed In Circuit Court Charles H. Hollis, 510 Maei st., Medford, is seeking $100, 000 in damages as a result of an auto accident on Nov. 9, 1958, according to a complaint filed in circuit court. Damages are being sought from Donald M. and Barbara Fiedler, Grand hotel, Med ford, and Lawrence Jones, Rogue River. Hollis alleges in his com plaint that the Fiedler and Jones cars collided with his vehicle on Highway 99, three miles south of Rogue River. Hollis charges further that the car which collided with his vehicle was being operated in a negligent and careless manner. As a result of the ac cident, Hollis alleges, he "sus tained severe and lasting per sonal injuries." The injuries cedar and 32,000 board feet of white fir. have caused and will cause him to lose work and income, he stated in the complaint. 32 Influenza Cases Reported in County Thirty-two cases of influ enza were reported to the Jackson county department of health last week, according to Dr. A. Erin Merkel, coun ty health physician. Of the number, 16 cases were in Shady Cove, 7 in Medford, and three each in Ashland, Trail and Phoenix. Other communicable dis eases reported include infect ious hepatitis, Central Point 4, Eagle Point 1; strep throat, Medford 3; measles, Medford 8. Jacksonville 1: chicken pox, Medford 3; and mumps, Medford 2, Gold Hill 1. In case you ever find a string with a lot of buttons on it, don't break the string to get the buttons off-no mat ter how unusual and interest ing tome of the buttons may be. The reason is that very likely what you've found will prove to be what is known to collectors as a "but ton charm string," and if it Is, it's value will be greater than the combined value of the individual buttons, no mat ter -how rare they - are. Button charm strings are a product of the sentimental days of the Victorian Age, along with the pressed flow ers and lockets containing a lock of hair and a faded pic ture. Most of them were undoubt edly produced by the occu pants of female seminaries who intended to keep them as stringed mementoes of friendships that blossomed in flower painting classes or those where they learned to play on the pianoforte. Occasionally, however, a charm string will hold a but ton from some gentleman's coat, a memento probably of some ball the young lady at tended. One string that I saw re cently contained a large brass button, a good inch across, which the young lady prob ably obtained at a dance in 1878 or a little later. At any rate, the button came from the uniform of a member of a British fox-hunting group. In the center was the head of a fox and the date 1878. Around the edge was the legend, "Elkridge Hounds." The name of the maker, Pitt & Co., London, was stamped on the back. I have known "hunt but tons," as that type is called, to bring as high as $75 each, but its value on the string of 28 buttons was probably twice as much. At any rate, the owner of the charm string refused $350 for it, and the average value of the other 27 buttons was given as $4 each. CALIFORNIA GOLD COINS MINTED TO PROVE STRIKES There simply couldn't be any California gold coins be fore 1849, so the man said. Everybody knows the Cali fornia gold rush didn't get started until 1849, and Cali fornia wasn't admitted to the Union until 1850. Therefore, a California gold coin dated 1848 must be a fake, and worth no more than its actual It took some talking on the part of the dealer to convince the seller that the coin was legitimate. He did it by show ing him that that 1849 gold rush actually started early in 1848, shortly after discovery of gold on Jan. 24. The clincher that convinced people in the East of the valid ity of the gold discovery was gold content plus any curiosity actual arrival o gold) and value it might have That was the gist of an argument put up by a man who felt he was being offer ed too much money for a $2.50 gold piece he wanted to sell. (There are such people. Usually they are those who are extremely sensitive about being taken as objects of charity.) The coin was typical of the quarter eagles put out by the U.S. Mint in 1848, except for one thing. Above the eagle on the reverse side were the letters CAL. one of the things the govern ment did to publicize the fact was to mint some coins from the first gold to arrive. The step was advisable because there had been plenty of gold discovery stories for years be fore. As to the value of the piece. It is worth up to $200 in mint condition, about 10 times the value of the coin without the CAL. 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