Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Lincoln Stamps Bring Neary $2 Million at a New York Auction


"...The collection was amassed by William J. Ainsworth, a retired executive from the consulting and accounting firm KPMG who lives in Roswell, Ga. He inherited his father’s stamp collection in 1963 but has said that for years he paid scant attention to it. Then, after meeting in 1977 with a former postmaster general who specialized in stamps showing Benjamin Franklin, he began building his Lincoln collection...."    



This Article is From: www.nytimes.com

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