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The Carolina is a magnificent four-story building completed in 1900. The
interior is a model of elegance, with appointments calculated to suit the most luxu
rious tastes. The hotel accommodates four hundred guests and is provided with
fifty-four suites with bath. The cuisine and table service are unsurpassed.
The house contains every modern comfort and convenience, including elevator,
telephone in every room, sun rooms, steam heat night and day, electric lights, and
water from the celebrated Pinehurst Springs, and a perfect sanitary system of
lewage and plumbing.
H. W, PRIEST, Manager.
The Berkshire,
PINEHURST. N. C.
The Berkshire has all modern conveniences for health and comfort ;running
water from the celebrated Pinehurst Springs, bath rooms, steam heat, open fires and
electric lights. The guests apartments are comfortable and home-like and the
public rooms are large and attractive.
J. A. SHERRARD, Manager.
Mrs. C G. STEVICK,
Masseuse etnd Manicurist, &
Is located in Pinehurst for her Fifth Season. Appointments niay be made by mail.
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WATCH FOR OLD STAMPS
Many of tie Rare Varieties are Worth
Thousands of Dollars.
Stamps That are Attached to Folded
betters are -Apt to he the Most
Valuable.
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s-bX AMINE carefully all old
letters and papers before
burning up or throwing
away," advised a Xew
York stamp dealer to a
Sun correspondent re
cently, "for there's many an apparently
worthless piece of paper that bears a
stamp which would bring in open market
hundreds and maybe thousands of dol
lars. "There are plenty of the old postmaster
stamps still in existence, for instance, as
there were a great many of them origi
nally issued, and it has not been so long
ago, say fifty-five years, when they were
none of them was used on envelopes, but
all on letters.
"The design of the Baltimore stamp is
a box made of hair line rule, one and ,i
half inches long and half an inch wide
In the centre is the signature, 'James M.
Buchanan,' while under the name is the
denomination, either 5 or 10 cents.
"There are two kinds of these stamps,
in black and blue. The ten cent black
is the scarcer.
"Xext to this series probably comes the
New Haven stamp, at the bottom of which
is the signature of 'E. A. Mitchell, P. M."
In the centre is the figure 5 with the word
'Paid' directly underneath. .At the top
are the words 'Post Office, Xew Haven.
Ct.' The words are all inclosed in a black
border with a small curve at the corners.
"Among the rarities of this grade may
also be mentioned the I-ockport, X. V.,
postmaster issue. This brings a very high
figure, and there ought to be still some of
them in the upper part of the State.
"In looking through stacks of old cor
respondence don't expect to see the older
stamps on envelopes that is, those stamps
used previous to 1850. Envelopes did not
come into use until that year, the old cus
tom being to fold the letter, seal it, and
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in active use. Xow, any one of these early
issues is worth from 300 up. Any one
who has access to old tiles of correspond
ence from 1840 to 18G5 ought to hunt for
such stamps.
"The chief reason why more of these
old stamps have not come to light is prob
ably that they have so ordinary and un
attractive appearance that a person
unacquainted .with their value would not
waste a second glance upon them. They
were very similar in most cases to the
postmasters cancellation marks now in
use in the post offices, with the exception
that the postmaster was required to sign
his name to them.
"The rarest of the whole lot of post
master issues is the 10-cent Baltimore
stamp, with the name of James M. Bu
chanan. One specimen of this stamp sold
for $4,400, which is the record price for a
stamp of United States issue. There's no
reason in the world why there shouldn't
be more of these stamps packed away
somewhere. In the case of this stamp
THE MARKET GARDEN.
then place the stamp above the address.
"Another class of correspondence which
will yield a good return if found is that
used in the South during the war. The
Confederate postmasters ran out of
stamps and issued special ones made in
their own localities, most of these set up
in type and then printed on the envelopes.
A good many of these envelopes were
made from wall paper.
"It was the custom at that time to send
a letter, with the postage to be collected
from the receiver, and a good many of
these Confederate stamps are nothing
more than cancellation marks showing
that the postage has been paid. But, no
matter what was their original purpose,
every one of the stamps is well worth
the finding, the value of some of them
running ,nto the hundreds of dollars.
"Janitors of public buildings and post
masters are in the best positions to come
across old stamps. A good illustration
of this was a case of the janitor of the
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