BUSINESS ABROAD Just Like Mclaria When Stockbroker Alfred H. Caspary died in Manhattan last January, he left a $12 million estate and 50,000 scraps of time-stained paper it had taken most of his life to acquire. Caspary's scraps of paper, worth an estimated $2,500,000, are the world's most valuable stamp collection in existence.* This week Britain's H. R. Harmer Ltd., the world's biggest stamp auctioneer, announced that its U.S. office has been awarded the job of selling the collection at auction over the next three years.
Stamps v. Stinks. To Harmer, which...
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