Stamps And Buttons

Two hundred thousand sets of the 1860 issue oí the Nova Scotia stampa ' have turned up, and the entire lot ia said to have be&n sold to a syndicate : of Oanadian dealers. The flnd la w j large that prices on thla set must iall very much. The veteran dealer, J. W. Scott, states that fifteen yeara ago he purchased several hundred sets lacklng the 6c from a gentleman in Ottawa at about 50 cents per -set. The 5c has been the commonest ol all this issue during the past decade. The Geneva exhibrUon has been a great succesa. The stamps were well shown, and the local committees made thlngs pleasant for all vlsitors. The exhlbition closed with a grand dinner, to which 125 gentlemen sat down. There were elghtytwo Zurlch 4 rappen, eighty-two Geneva 10 centimes, thirty-two Vaud 4 centimes stocwn, almost all of whioh were In used condition. These are the stamps worth from $100 to $200 each, but the Vilk of them were In the albums of eight or nine exhibltors. Pastor Lenhard took the gold medal ior the best Swiss stamps, Stanley Gibbons the gold medal for the best collection of any one country. He exhiblted hls Trinidad and St. Vincent collection, worth $25,000. A collection of 20,000 buttons, including specimens of those worn on all the uniforms of the world, has been left by a rich Bnglishman named Hamilton, who öied recently in Vienna. He had also brought together 352 fans, whicb had each belonged to beautiful womea Another fad of English collectors is the buttons of servants bearing their employers' coat-of-arms. The butto craze is rapidly growmg, and probably wil! reach its climax early in November, after which time it will gradually die out. Several collectors have over 00 different buttona, in every variety of shape, size, color, design and motto. The buttons were sold early in the season for $30 a thousand, but the price had come down to $7 a thousand. Specially handsome buttons are $10 a thousand. The sidewalk peddlers sell them at 2 cents each, or three for 5