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This Department is conducted in the interest of stamp and coin
collectors, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question
on these subjects so far as possible. Correspondents should
address Editor Stamp Department.

How many of us know where Ipswich, England, is? An exhibition of stamps
has just been opened there which must be fine, as English collectors
value the stamps exhibited at over $100,000. A few years ago the New
York collectors made an exhibit at the Eden Musee on Twenty-third
Street, which probably called the attention of thousands to the "old
postage-stamp craze," and led to the making of hundreds of new recruits
in this absorbing hobby. Perhaps the same collectors may make another
exhibit. If they obtain the assistance of some of the New England
collectors the exhibit would be one of the finest ever seen. One
gentleman in Maine has a collection valued at over $200,000, consisting
chiefly of the great rarities.

A. T. D.--A surcharged stamp is one which has had a new value or
some inscription printed on the face of the stamp. As a rule
stamps of a high value are surcharged with a lower value. For
instance, Ceylon, in 1885, surcharged the 16, 24, 36, 48, and 64
cents and other stamps "Five Cents." These surcharged stamps were
then good for five cents only. Provisional stamps are those which
are issued in an emergency, and usually are surcharged stamps.

H. H. C.--The coin dealers ask $3 each for the commonest dates of
the quarter-eagle U.S. The scarce dates are worth much more. You
do not give the date of your coin.