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MONDAY, AUGUST 5. 1963
MEDFOHD MAIL THibUiSt. Mi.Dr OKD, OHLGON
Stamp Collecting, Trading Continues As Big Business
CIVIL WAR
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The emergence of new na
New York-IUPD-Those two.
some stamps, even unused,
may have grown in value only
by fractions despite consid
erable age; that the cancella
tion on some old stamps may
have increased their value,
and lowered that of others.
While there are hundreds
of dealers in the stamp world,
one old U.S. firm, Scott Stamp
Publications, a division now
of Esquire, Inc., has achieved
a prominent position not by
dealing in stamps but by
keeping available to collectors
prices from hundreds of key
it has assumed the responsi
bility of maintaining an or
derly market.
Only the price changes that
result from the constant trad
ing of a stamp, and not the
wide price swings due to un
usual situations, are entered
in the catalogue numbers and
are used as identification for
stamps, rather than a descrip
tion of the stamp, around the
world.
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cent stamps which grandfath
er tucked away in a book or
stamp dealers around the
world; about 80,000 price
changes are made each year
in the catalogue.
A report issued recently on
the firm's activities quoted
Joseph Arnstein, senior vice
president of Esquire, as say
ing that Scott performs some
thing of the same sort of func
tion as does the specialist in
a securities auction market;
tions with new postage i
and the continuing steadiness
of stamp collecting as an
established hobby led to Es
quire's acquisition of Scott in
1960 as an enterprise with
growth potential. Scott does
not deal in stamps any longer
and has not for nearly 25
years; it is the largest of five
firms engaged in the so-called
stamp accessory business.
and dealers the price struc
ture in the field. It annually
issues a "standard catalogue,"
listing the price of every ma
jor variety of mint and can
celed postage stamps issued
since 1840. These number
about 150,000.
Reports Assembled
Gordon Hirmer, editor for
Scott's, assembles reports on
a drawer and forgot won't
carry as many letters in to
day's zipcode mail as they did
on the slower routes of 50
years ago.
But in the stamp collector's
world, they may go a long
way farther toward helping
fill the pocket book then the
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LULL IN WAR As in other wars, there
were periods of lull and boredom in the
Civil War. In August of 1863 there was such
a period. On Aug. 8 Gen. Robert E. Lee.
right, wrote to President Jefferson D.ivis,
left, about the criticism on his (Lee's) loss
at Gettysburg. In one of his rare periods of
discouragement, Lee called on Davis to re
place him as commander of the Confederate
Army of Northern Virginia. Davis quickly
responded that he could not that there
was no one to replace him. So Lee stayed on.
(UPI)
A Period of Military Reprieve
By MEHTON T. AKERS
UPI Correspondent
The Civil War, like all
wars, consisted of occasional
battles separated by long pe
riods of boredom.
"Hurry up and wait," was
as good a wisecrack in tnc
Civil War as it was in World
War II.
The first week In August
1863 was one of those periods
of little military action. There
was the usual skirmishing
alone the lines where much
powder was burned with few
results.
Even skirmishing some
times palled on the soldiers
doing picket duty. From time
to time they declared their
own little amistices and trad
ed between the lines for the
small things that made army
life a bit easier. Union sol
diers swapped coffee, of
which they had plenty, to
Rebels, who had none, for to
bacco, of which the graycoats
had plenty.
These interludes usually
lasted an hour or so and the
the soldiers who had been
fraternizing went back to the
grim business of killing.
Ahnut this time Pvt. Elisha
Stockwell Jr., of the 14th
$13-a-month pay. He was just
17 and already a veteran of
two years, wise in the ways
of getting along as well as
fighting.
Sold Money
Vears later he wrote about
an interlude at Natchez:
"One day I was with a boy
about my own age that be
longed to another company.
He had found where he could
sell Confcrerate money for
ten cents on the dollar, and
w cc o u 1 d buy it for from
three to five cents. We made
$40 that day. But we bought
some of a 33rd Wisconsin boy
that was printed on white
paper. It was Just imitation
of Rebs' money, but wasn't
signed.. We colored the paper
with coffee and got Nate
Clapp, of my company, who
was a good penman, to sign
it. We had a genuine bill for
a sample, and passed it all
right. But the Reb citizen we
sold it to found out it was
counterfeit, and wouldn't buy
any more from the Yanks. So
we ruined our business by
being dishonest."
Pvt. Robert Patrick, a na
tive of Clinton, La., and a
member of the 4th Louisiana
Infantry, was having his
troubles, too. His regiment
Wisconsin Inlnntry was bored had bpen on lhe way toward
ana neeaea money, nt w vicksburg when the city sur
on garrison duty at Natchez, rcndercd t0 lhe Kcdcrals un-
miss, ne nbu luugui, hi uiu
siege of Vlcksburg and now
time hung heavy on his hands.
He set out to augument his
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dor U. S. Grant. Now he was
retreating in Mississippi. He
made these entries in his
diary:
"Aug. 7 . . . Our horses
do not fare well now. Three
green cornstalks per day for
i each horse. The desertions
are more frequent now than considered
ever, and they leave by whole
companies, offiers and all .
"Aug. 8 . . . Jim Blow
and I rode about three miles
in search of water. We at
length found some muddy,
stagnant stuff, but we were
very glad to get it. We raked
off the black scum and pitch
ed into it . . . These open
woods are very hot the tall
pines afford no protection
from the sun."
All Wat Quiet
On one Eastern theatre, all
was quiet along the Rappa
hannock, too. where Col.
Charles S. Wainwright, a Un
ion artillery officer from
Rhinebeck, N.Y., was camp
ing with the Army of the
Potomac.
He wrote:
"Aug, 3-Another piping hot
day . . . The house where
we arc camped belongs to Mr.
Bowcn, a rebel, but is now
inhabited by a man by the
name of Smith, from Culpep
er, a good Union man ... It is
a large house of considerable
pretentions outside with a
dooryard of fine sod on which
our tents are pitched. The
general has a room in the
house; his staff tents are along
one side and my two Just at
the right of the front door.
We have an excellent well of
water in the yard, which is
a great thing in this part of
the country. Today we man
aged to get a little ice, but
our claret is out . . .'
George Templeton Strong,
treasurer of the Sanitary
Commission, the Civil War
equivalent of the Red Cross,
was in Now York reading the
newspapers and wrote his im
pression of the time:
"Aug. 4-rOnly news is the
death of that notable scoun
drel, W. L. Yancey, and the
serious illness of the larcen
ous Floyd. The gallows don't
always get its due in the
world, but the Devil common
ly gets his in the next; and
if all men are to be Judged
by the quality of the mischief
they have done and of misery
they have caused, these delib
erate authors of Civil War
deserved a hot corner in Top-
net . . ."
(William Lowdncs Yancey,
one of the early advocates of
secession, died July 27, 1863.
John B. Floyd was secretary
of war under President Bu
chanan. He became a Confed
erate general and died at Ab
ington, Va., Aug. 26, 1863.
Both Yancey and Floyd were
traitors in the
Postage increases, dollar
shrinkage regardless, the
hoarding and collection and
trading of stamps goes se
renely on, nationally and in-
ternationally, as it has for
nearly a century.
No Business Center
Many items of value
widely collected and traded as
are postage stamps have reg
ular marketplaces but there
is no one center in which the
stamp collector and the deal
er do business. The literature
on collection and evaluation
of stamps is widespread and
international in scope, and
the novice or the serious pro
fessional alike often seek
common standard of price if
a time comes to "do business.
In other words, some sourc
es explain that an unused
1937 Lindbergh airmail stamp
of 10-cent denomination may
now be worth $1.10. Or that
McNamara Gets
Encouraging Report
Bonn, Germany -(UPI)- Sec
retary of Defense Robert S.
McNamara conferred Satur
day with his military com
manders In Europe and re
ceived "generally encourag
ing reports," his top aide said.
Asst. Secretary of Defense
Arthur Sylvester said McNa
mara covered strategy, weap
ons and supply in his three
and one-half hour conference
with Army, Navy and Air
Force chiefs in the old head
quarters of German Afrika
Korps Gen. Erwin Rommel
in Stuttgart.
The conference at what ii
now 7th U. S. Army head
quarters was called primarily
to check on the ability of
U. S. forces to fight a conven
tional war in central Europe
if a situation arises that would
not bring nuclear strikes into
action.
North.)
Brag Too Loudly
"Aug. 8 Newspapers brag
too loudly about our having
'broken the backbone' of the
rebellion arid about the de
velopment of Union feeling in
Tennessee, Mississippi and
North Carolina. The vetebrae
of Southern Treason still co
here, as we may yet learn to
our terrible cost . . ."
(His reference was to exag-
eratcd newspaper stories
about recent Union victories
at Gettysburg and Vicksburg.
As usual the North overesti
mated the immediate results
and began to say the war was
about over. Strong forecast
better than he knew.)
Across the lines from Col
onel Wainwright, Gen. Robert
E. Lee took note of criticism
against him for losing the
battle of Gettysburg. It weigh
ed on his mind and on Aug.
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Washington - IUPII - Prelim
inary reports are likely to be
made this month in the gov
ernments' study of Krebiozen,
the controversial drug held
by its sponsors and many pa
tients treated with it to be
an effective "anti-cancer" se
rum. Distribution of Krebiozen
was banned outside Illinois
after one of its sponsors, Dr.
Stevan Durovic of Chicago,
withheld plans for investiga
tional use of the drug re
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Durovic, co-sponsor Dr. An
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at least some types of cancer.
Therefore, they say, the ban
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8 he wrote to President Jef
ferson Davis:
"... The general remedy
for the want of success in a
military commander is his re
moval. This is natural, and in
many instances proper ... I
have been prompted by these
reflections more than once '
since my return from Pcnnsyl-;
vania to propose to Your Ex-
ellency the propcricty of se
lecting another commander
for this army (The Army of
Northern Virginia) ... I
therefore in all sincerity, re
quest Your Excellency to
take measures to supply my
place ... no one is more
aware than myself of my in
ability ..."
Growing Failure
There was much more in
the letter. He spoke of "the
growing failure of my bodily
strength" and said that "I
am so dull that in making
use of the eyes of others I
am frequently misled." He
thought "a younger and abler
man" might be found. He
praised his army as "gallant
and brave an army as ever
existed."
For the first time in the
war Lee was discouraged.
Davis replied at once.
"Where am I to find a new
commander who is to possess
the greater ability which you
believe to be required?" Davis
wrote. "If Providence should
"kindly offer such a person
fur our use. 1 would not hesi
tate to avail of his services
. . . Our country could not
bear to lose you . . ."
Lee stayed on to fight an
other 20 months.
The exchange of letters was
not made public, presumably
because it might depress the
I already low spirits of the
I South.
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