Tho auction of the late Duke of Ferrari’s stamp collection not Paris realised .£320,000, including ,£BOO for a Mauritius and J 14500 for a Geneva stamp dated 1843. It is believed the Duke spent half n million upon the collection, which ho bequeathed io the Berlin Postal Museum, but it was housed in Paris during the war. and the French Government confiscated it. The Duko of Ferrari claimed that the collection included a used and unused specimen of every postage stamp to the end of the nineteenth century. In an average life of 70 years, not counting tho first. 10, over 21 years are spent in sleep, over 16 in work, 11 months in dressing and undressing, ayd 7 months in churohgoing, soys ono statistician.
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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 25, 24 October 1921, Page 5
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125Untitled Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 25, 24 October 1921, Page 5
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