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One of a kind.

The Stamp Collecting Report, I'm Lloyd de Vries.

It happens every time the Postal Service issues a sheet of stamps with different 
subjects: Some customers only want ONE of the designs, not all of them.

Such is the case with this summer's Early Television Memories stamps, which feature 20 
different shows and their stars, from Milton Berle to Perry Mason. 

In a recent column, Mekeel's and Stamps Magazine editor John Leszak tells of stamp 
dealers getting calls from people who want to buy sheets of 20 stamps, all of the same 
show....all "Lone Ranger" or all "Twilight Zone."

One dealer at first turned down these requests...but then had second thoughts. So he 
bought 20 sheets of the stamps, removed all the stamps except Twilight Zone from one 
of the sheets, and added 19 more.

Twilight Zone theme
RUNS :01 and under

Voila! He'd constructed a single sheet of 20 Twilight Zone stamps....and sold it for 
TWICE face value....88 cents a stamp. Now he's trying to find that Lone Ranger fan.

I'm Lloyd de Vries of The Virtual Stamp Club. For more on stamps and stamp collecting, 
visit virtual-stamp-club-dot-com. 

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