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DID YOU KNOW THAT?
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Coca - Cola was originally made in
a three- legged pot in a Georgia backyard?
Pretty Polly tights are named after
a racehorse?
There never were 57 Varieties of
Heinz products?
There never was a Mr Bond -
Arthur Brooke just thought up the name 'Brooke Bond' sounded ideal to him. However, they really was a Clarence Birdseye and a Dr Kellogg? |
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Stanley Gibbons started life as a
Chemist? Edward Stanley Gibbons was born in 1840, they year the first STAMP was created.
By 1854 the art of stamp
collecting began. He had a book of 20 stamps. At 15yrs old he left school, entered a bank, but as his brother died, he was told to follow his fathers trade into their own chemist. He branched out into stamp collecting. In 1863 two sailors sold him a mailbag full of Cape of Good Hope triangular stamps for �5. He estimated his profit as �500! Another event was when a postmaster in Australia forwarded �20 worth of unused stamps, remarking he had sending 120 of the 2d stamps printed in the colours of the 6d stamp. These rare mauve 2d stamps of 1879 are now worth about �6000! |
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In 1865 the famous
stamp catalogue arrived as a monthly price list. By 1870 it became a catalogue book. Then he became entirely a mail order business handling up to 300 letters per day. In 1890 he retired selling his business to Charles J Philips for �25,000 and the offer of Chairman. The business expanded moving first to a small shop, then the famous HQ at 399 Strand, London. In 1902 a New York branch was open. Gibbons died in 1913 after a lifetime in stamp dealing. |
