The collector's mania does not leave Russisns even although it is usually expensive.
But whereas before they, like Euro-
[pean and American millionaires. collected famous pictures. priceless sculpture and jewels of historical significance, to-day they find satisfaction in collecting stamps and even match-box labels, The hobby not as ridiculous as it seems.
Japan, for instance, match-boxes are widely used for advertising purposes, and some time ago a loca!
philatelist who in the course of ter A years accumulated 8,000 of these
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.