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Updated: May 11, 2025
And the ordinary Woodblocks, which were so plentifully represented in that sackful, are now catalogued at from 50s. to £9 apiece. Strange as it may seem, those were the common stamps of those days, and they are the rarities of to-day.
Young Gibbons, amongst his early purchases, bought from a couple of sailors at Plymouth for £5 a sackful of triangular Cape of Good Hope stamps, a large proportion being the rare so-called Woodblocks, with many of the Errors described in the list of great rarities in another chapter. Those Errors he disposed of at 2s. 6d. each. They are now worth from £60 to £75 each.
At its further end, a curtain half drawn aside showed another room, a dining-room, also firelit with a long table spread for tea, a bare floor of polished woodblocks, and a few prints on the walls. The wagon she had seen on the river approached the homestead. The man who was driving it a strong-limbed, fair-haired fellow lifted his cap when he saw Elizabeth at the window.
Here complete editions of Gargantuan compass; vast cyclopaedia copied by hand and running into thousands of volumes; essays dating from the time of dynasties now almost forgotten; woodblocks black with age crowded the endless unvarnished shelves.
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