FREAK ISSUE OF STAMPS
Dealer Resells At £9560 Profit
(Rec. 9.30 p.m.) LONDON. Jan. 5. All that 16-year-old Patricia Jarvis, the girl who sold the £12.000 “Dartford tuppennies,’’ has received is a new nickname—"Tuppeny.” Yesterday, she gave away the £4O which a stamp dealer paid her for the sheet of unperforated twopenny stamps, the “Daily Sketch’’ reported.
In a letter to the National Spastics Society, she said: "Please accept £4O which includes my own £2 which I paid for the stamps. I feel I would like your society to have the money since it has caused me such unhappiness.’’
A Post Office statement said Miss Jarvis had infringed regulations in knowingly allowing the sale of imperfect stamps.
Miss Jarvis noticed the sheet of 240 unperforated twopenny stamps while working at the counter of a post office In Dartford, near London. As a collector in a small way, she realised they were of some value. She bought them by putting their face value of £2 in the till.
A seventy-year-old stamp dealer, Mr George Lofts, gave her £4O for them and resold them to a London firm for £9600. In view of a Post Office announcement of tightened safeguards against freaks, the stamps may be worth as much as £12,000, according to the London firm which is to market them in pairs.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28169, 7 January 1957, Page 7
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