STAMP SOLD FOR £5000

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22960, 11 February 1938, Page 12

STAMP SOLD FOR £SOOO

SWEDISH 1855 COLLECTION FERRARY COLLECTION [by OWN correspondent] ' CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday Advice that a Swedish stamp was sold by a London auctioneer, and that! the price paid for it was about £SOOO, has been received by a Christchurch philatelist. When the celebrated Ferrary collection was sold in Paris shortly after the Armistice, an American millionaire paid in excess of £7OOO for a British Guiana stamp. In the same collection was a copy of a Swedish stamp of the year 1855. This stamp sold for £7OO. In the intervening years the Swedish Government and Swedish philatelists became interested in the stamp, and, as a result, a book was written about this small scrap of paper. When it was sold for £SOOO, it automatically became next in value to the British Guiana and ahead of the Post Office Mauritius, which popular fancy considers the most valuable of all stamps. "The cablo message states that the Mauritius which has been l'ound is reputed to bo valued at £5000," observed the Christchurch philatelist. "I doubt whether it would fetch quite that amount, as 26 copies of the penny and 'twopenny Mauritius are known to exist." ' ' »