| 2,000 1902 |Major-Gen. Lambton. |British Colonies. | 3,400 1902 |C. Hollander. |South Africa. | 1,500 1903 |J. N. Marsden. |General. | 2,350 1903 |E. J. Nankivell. |Transvaal. | 3,000 1904 |P. Fabri. |General. | 3,000 1904 |A titled collector. |Selection of great rarities. | 4,700 1904 |Prince Doria Pamphilj.|General. | 2,000 1905 |M. P. Castle. |Australia. | 5,750 1906 |W. W. Mann. |Europe. |30,000 1906 |A. Bagshawe. |Straits Settlements. | 2,000 1907 |V. Roberts. |Cape Colony, Queensland, &c. | 3,800 1907 |Tomson. |West Indies. | 6,800 1908 |P. Mirabaud. |{Switzerland, £8,000 }| | |{Rest of Collection, £22,000 }|30,000 1909 |Sir W. B. Avery. |General. |24,500 1909 |J. W. Paul, jun. |General. |11,400 1909 |J. F. Seybold. |General. | 5,000 1911 |Miguel Gambin. |Argentina. | 6,000 -------+----------------------+------------------------------+------- FOOTNOTES: [17] Earlier in the same year this boudoir gossiper had answered no fewer than three correspondents, "Mercury," "Daniel," and "Milly" at one shot thus: "We cannot encourage 'exchanging foreign stamps,' for we do not see the smallest good resulting from it. This foreign stamp-collecting has been a mania, which is at length dying out. Were the stamps works of art, then the collecting them might be justified. Were they, in short, anything but bits of defaced printing, totally worthless, we would try to say something in their favour. There are now so many lithographic forgeries in the market that he is the cleverest of the clever who can detect the spurious stamps from the true."--_The Young Ladies' Journal_, April 27, 1864. [18] The pseudonym of Dr. Legrand. [19] See further "Postage Stamps of the Hawaiian Islands in the Collection of Henry J. Crocker," described and illustrated by Fred J. Melville, London, 1908. [20] "The Stamp Collector," by W. J. Hardy and E. D. Bacon, 1897. X ROYAL AND NATIONAL COLLECTIONS CHAPTER X ROYAL AND NATIONAL COLLECTIONS The late Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha as a collector--King George's stamps: Great Britain, Mauritius, British Guiana, Barbados, Nevis--The "King of Spain Reprints"--The late Grand Duke Alexis Michaelovitch--Prince Doria Pamphilj--The "Tapling" Collection--The Berlin Postal Museum--The late Duke of Leinster's bequest to Ireland--Mr. Worthington's promised gift to the United States.