The Collector Volume 106-116

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...should be retained. One morning the Prince called upon an American lady, then living in London, who had known htm in Boston, and who had there sent him to her kitchen to get something to eat. He found her at breakfast, and she condescendingly offered him a cup of tea. "Thank you, madam," replied the negro school-mabter, " but I am invited to breakfast at Carlton House." It was this innocent thrust which caused the American lady, who would have given up ten years of her life for an invitation to breakfast at Carlton House, to expose Saunders' true station, and the folly of his admirers, to the world. Arthur Howard Noll. Collierville, Tenn. THE IDENTIFICATION OF BOOK-PLATES. The inexperienced collector in the pursuit of his chosen hobby will sooner or later find the identification of nameless plates a serious problem, and one too that frequently requires much more technical knowledge than he has personally or which he can obtain without great difficulty. The future has great possibilities along the line of literature on this subject. Even the veteran collector cannot always identify offhand an absolutely unknown plate. This means even to him a considerable amount of research in a field of knowledge at once peculiar and almost boundless in horizon. Experience of course always affords a very considerable guic'e in establishing the period, school, style, and other points that go far in establishing the identity of an unsigned and undated plate. A wide and exhaustive knowledge of heraldry is almost absolutely essential in determining 'early American as well as foreign plates. Failing this, a good reference library may often be consulted with satisfactory results, as it is unfortunately not always possible to have all the notes necessary to con...