COLLECTING AND HOBBIES

With Special Reference to Coin, Medal and Paper Money CollectingBoots and shoes are much prized by some. Fifty years ago a well known Englishman possessed the shoes of many of the beauties of the Court of Charles II, amongst them those of the Duchess of Cleveland, Lady Muskerry, La Belle Hamilton, Miss Jennings, and - miss Stewart. The last pair is supposed to have been stolen from Miss Stewart by Lord Rochester and Killigrew. The collection is now missing.The comic element, moreover, is not a bsent so the subject is fruitful in many directions. An American woman, for instance, on a visit to Milan, expressed admiration for a monument in one of the public squares - a statue of world-wide renown. The guide assured her that the monument was for sale, and to purchase it received the sum of ten thousand pounds. With the money he fled to the frontier, where he was arrested by the police. Five thousand pounds the thief handed over to his captors as the price of his release and with the remaining five was allowed to escape!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.