In the permenant exhibit at the National Postal Museum in DC, there is a
plexiglass column filled floor to ceiling with thousands (millions?) of the
little round pieces of paper left over when they perforate the stamp edges
--- A very clever use of the left-overs I think!

Take care

>Says he:  "You know those cards that computers used to use?"
>
>Says I:  "Do you mean punchcards?"
>
>Says he:  "Yeah . . . You know the things that were punched out of
>them?"
>
>Says I:  "The holes?"
>
>Says he:  "Yes.  I would like to donate some--I've got millions of them.
> I think that someone could make a creative and meaningful display out
>of them."
>
>I allowed as how that probably was something that wouldn't really
>interest us (I used them in high school for confetti).  It was all I
>could do to get the phone hung up before I burst out laughing.
>
>I've been offered a lot of things, but never anything like this.
>
>Have a good day!
>
>Claudia
>Curator
>Museum Collections Department
>Minnesota Historical Society
>345 Kellogg Blvd. W.
>St. Paul, MN  55102-1906
>      Tel: 612-297-7442
>      FAX: 612-297-2967
>      e-mail:  [log in to unmask]

Gregory Scheib
Baltimore, MD