(RCSD) Looking Back #201 - "Unhinged" Stamps

"Unhinged" Stamps

Discussions continually arise over the "greater value"
of mint stamps that are preserved unhinged.

The Caspary collection will likely realize a greater sum
of money than any collection offered for sale in the past.

The stamps are bringing extraordinarly high prices and
in the case of his unused stamps none of the buyers
apparently pay any attention to the "hinging" situation.

Caspary hinged all of his stamps and some of them
several times.

- George B. Sloane
Sloane's Column
Stamps
September 29, 1956

Note : 50 years later, the debate goes on.