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The Mystery Box book is the proud winner of a Silver Medal awarded by the Chicago Philatelic Society CHICAGOPEX Literature Exhibit

Read the Book Review by Barbara Kinne of the APS American Philatelist

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In the Conan Doyle story, the six Napoleons are actually six ceramic busts of the French emperor, one of which contains the fabulous Borgia pearl.

Cast not your pearls into pottery, is that the lesson here?

The stamp (Scott 1188) is from a set celebrating contemporary British studio pottery.

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